"Comedy is a very approval-oriented field."
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"Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable."
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"My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler."
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"Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business."
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"I was 23. When you're 23, your concern is not for the greater good of humanity. I didn't feel like I was unleashing an evil on society or anything. At the time, that's what I was into, and I did a movie about it."
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"I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing."
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"Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?"
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"What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt."
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"Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life."
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"I got a lot of positive people around me."
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"I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue."
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"Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through."
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"If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself."
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"The language you are about to hear... is disturbing."
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"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 wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space."
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"I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again."
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"I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it's a pretty good lifestyle."
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"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 uncomfortable. If I look at my dog when he's eating, he will look at me like, "Dave, I will bite you. What are you looking at? I'm trying to eat." It's something that dehumanizes a person, being on display like that."
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"The higher up I went, the less happy I was."
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"Everyone who wants to make it in comedy goes to L.A., so a million comedians fight for time on three stages. If you get in there in New York, you're working eight times a night sometimes. Who's going to be funny, the guy who works once a week, or the guy working eight times a night?"
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