Dave Chappelle Quotes - Page 4

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

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.

Everyone who wants to make it in comedy goes to L.A., so a million comedians fight for time on three stages. If you get in there in New York, you're working eight times a night sometimes. Who's going to be funny, the guy who works once a week, or the guy working eight times a night?

No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.

It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

I'm an introspective dude.

I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.

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 religion if you learn it the right way.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he was in high school. It kind of made me feel like, "Yeah." I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to do stand-up. And I figured, "What's the point of doing stand-up around DC? I'm always going to be under-appreciated there because I started there." I felt like I was strong enough and unique enough that I should give it a big leash to shine. New York was the best thing that ever happened to me as a comedian.

What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.

Hey hey hey, smoke weed everyday

Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?

I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

My generation is under-entertained.

A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance.

Why don't you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.