Dave Chappelle Quotes

I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

I'm not one of those celebrities that will just put my name on something and expect to get a check.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

I definitely consider myself extremely blessed to have great partners in endorsing products. It's not about being on billboards. I endorse something because I believe in it.

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'

I have been very careful about what kind of products and companies I endorse just because I don't want to be promoting anything that I don't have any kind of connection to.

I have plenty of sponsors, and I'm the first American that Pretorian has sponsored.

Apart from films I've been shooting a lot of ads and signing on with a lot of brands as their primary endorser.

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

I love to keep doing the voice, and I'll do it as long as I'm able and as long as Tony sells cereal.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

There are product placements. I worked with a lot of companies like Universal and Wonderful Pistachios.

Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.