Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he’s not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn’t even say that.
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I don’t want the money. I don’t want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
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I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
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I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
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Weed’s not as bad as everything else… ’cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain’t crisp… but you’ll function.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
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