Quotes By Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

My generation is under-entertained.

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

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.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

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.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I'm an introspective dude.

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

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

America, I appreciate you liking me.

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.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

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

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

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.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

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.

I love my jokes.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

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.