Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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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.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.
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We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
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What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.
