184 Quotes by Dave Chappelle

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

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

like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people.

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

But 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.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

I got a big kick out of that, actually. I think even when we were doing the concert ... everyone thought it was kind of cool that three busloads of people came from southwest Ohio.

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.