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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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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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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Like sensible people throughout history, the average Phoenician wanted as little to do with his government as possible.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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I'm terrified of goats.
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Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
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I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.
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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.
