I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
DAVE CHAPPELLEConstantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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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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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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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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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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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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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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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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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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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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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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