Quotes & Jokes by Dave Chappelle / page 7
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.
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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.
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.
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.
I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.
If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
The worst thing to call somebody is "crazy". It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit! People are not crazy. They are strong people...Maybe the environment is a little sick.
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.
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.
We just jumped out and started shooting with the band, and then one thing led to another. You see it unfold in the movie, but by the end of just hanging with them we had decided, 'Why don't we have them come to Brooklyn?' It was pretty awesome.