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Dave Chappelle
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 24
Comedian
Film Actor
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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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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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What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
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If someone sits and stares at you while you eat, you won't even eat the way you normally do, because it'll make you so uncomfortable. If I look at my dog when he's eating, he will look at me like, Dave, I will bite you. What are you looking at? I'm trying to eat. It's something that dehumanizes a person, being on display like that.
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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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 interest in controlling you.
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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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.
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I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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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.
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There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.
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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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Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.
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My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.
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You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.
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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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I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
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I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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