Dave Chappelle Quotes
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You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
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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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A black man would never dream of talking to the police high. That's a waste of weed. I'm serious. I mean, I'd be scared to talk to the police when I'm sleepy.
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The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
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'Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, are you an Indian?' And he was cool. 'Yes. Yes, I'm an Indian.' Still didn't believe him. I had to test him to be sure. This is fucked up, but I had a gum wrapper in my pocket, so I balled that shit up and I threw it on the floor. And a single tear came out of his eye. I said 'oh, shit!' I had so many questions.
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After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
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I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.
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I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
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I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.
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Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.
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I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
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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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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 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 interested in controlling you.
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I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
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I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
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There's a few reasons you don't see black people at my shows. One is because, obviously, black people have slower internet connections. I mean, that would be my guess. I don't know.
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Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.
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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
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I don't even know why people do crime. They want to catch you, they're gonna catch you. They can. They got forensics. You ever seen forensics? Those guys find clues nobody else thinks about looking for. I mean it. You leave a pubic hair anywhere near a crime scene, they're gonna find that shit.
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There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.