Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

Gabriel Iglesias

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• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Awesome
  • Interview

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • World
  • Done
  • Want

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Face

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Dad

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Done
  • Deadline
  • Options

• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Political
  • Theatre

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Step

• Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Done
  • Nice
  • Flowers

• I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Irrational
  • Realm

• Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Emotional
  • Actors
  • Taste

• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  

  John Keats

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why