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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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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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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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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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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You’ve got to say ‘yes’ to your destiny. Life’s happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!
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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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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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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.
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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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 support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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