Gabriel Iglesias Quotes
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.
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To control your hormones is to control your life.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
