Quotes & Jokes by Dave Chappelle / page 7
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.
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
There was something really serendipitous that was happening, with some kind of energy that things would ultimately just work out, sometimes better than when you plan.
Like, see, I'd never vote for George Bush Junior, but I don't know anything about his politics. All I know about that George Bush Junior is that that guy sniffed cocaine. That's right. Now, listen, we can't have that shit in the White House. That may be fine for a mayor; but goddammit, not the White House! The stakes are too high. He'd be sellin' nuclear secrets for 20 or 30 dollars and shit.
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.
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.
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 figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone, stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as brakes.
If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.
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.
By the numbers, this was the worst way to have done it. He couldn't think straight. It was fight or flight - and he chose flight.
I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.