Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it’s not nothing, it’s something. But it’s not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
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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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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian, what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
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For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.
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You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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I don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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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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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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