When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
DAVE CHAPPELLEPeople 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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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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Everyone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross 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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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I started when I was 14. I figured out that’s what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, “You’re gonna be a comedian,” and all this stuff.
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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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 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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