Dave Chappelle Quotes

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

I love the company of my family and I like being on stage performing because I'm interested in people.

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

People always ask me how I muster the strength to be so open about things, and I explain to them that I took the Myers-Briggs test, like, four times, and every single time, I ranked an 87 percent extrovert, so it would probably take more strength for me to shut up.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"

I didn't even know how to talk to people, I didn't know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what haven't I learned? Everything that I know is new information because I was starting with nothing.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.