Dave Chappelle

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

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

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.