Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes
My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
-
Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
-
I know what poverty is.
-
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-
When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
-
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
-
Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
-
I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
-
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
-
I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
-
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
-
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
-
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
-
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
-
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
-
I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
-
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
-
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
-
It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighborhood, the things I loved, like ice cream trucks and Kool-Aid.
-
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
-
There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
-
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
-
Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.
-
My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.
