Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
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His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
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Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
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As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.
