Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I started when I was 14. I figured out that's what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money,… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I got my hat pulled up low and no one can really see me. I'm ducked out. People do recognize me, and… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
With younger people I'm recognized with always Half-Baked, Blue Streak because it's on cable. Women, it's always You've Got Mail. Nutty Professor… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money," he said. "I'm at a… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that.… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
