Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
Quotes to Explore
-
Never explain, never complain.
-
When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
-
I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
-
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
-
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women – those men were all very used to working with women.
-
Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
-
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
-
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
-
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
-
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
-
I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
-
L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
-
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
-
The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
-
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
-
When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.
-
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
-
The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.
-
No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
-
Instead of saying, 'This guy is supposed to rotate here and this guy is supposed to rotate there,' if you see it, just pull the trigger and cover for that guy, and somebody has to cover for you. That's all out of reaction and you don't have to think about it.
-
[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.
-
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
-
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
