Dave Chappelle - Best Quotes

Teacher

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

Dave Chappelle

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

Sports

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

Dave Chappelle

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

Religion

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Dave Chappelle

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Positive

I got a lot of positive people around me.

Dave Chappelle

I got a lot of positive people around me.

Great

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.

Dave Chappelle

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.

Funny

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

Dave Chappelle

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

Funny

Something about New York man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny New York is the place to go.

Dave Chappelle

Something about New York man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny New York is the place to go.

Famous

I love being famous – it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous – it's phenomenal.

Famous

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

Dave Chappelle

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

Famous

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Dave Chappelle

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Famous

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Dave Chappelle

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Cool

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Dave Chappelle

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Author: Dave Chappelle

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

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

I got a lot of positive people around 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.

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

Something about New York man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny New York is the place to go.

I love being famous – it's phenomenal.

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

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.