I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
DAVE CHAPPELLEAll white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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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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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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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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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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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
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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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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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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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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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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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