Mexican Quotes

• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.

  

  Washed Out
  • Food
  • Week
  • Three

• At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up
  • War
  • Beginning

• Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Guy
  • Mexican

• Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Guy
  • Mexican

• The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Mexican
  • Sentimental
  • Them

• I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Girl
  • Spanish
  • Mexican

• I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Relationship

• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Unlike dragons, I love spicy salsa. In fact, the spicier the better. For me, the ideal taco toppings are chopped onion, some cilantro and a bit of lime juice. I like the classic Mexican style. I like crunchy, Tex-Mex, cheese-slathered too, but I prefer to keep it simple.

  

  Adam Rubin
  • Mexican
  • Salsa
  • Taco

• There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • American
  • Spanish
  • Mexican

• The U.S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U.S. citizen because our 'leaders' can't say no!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Drug
  • Mexican

• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  

  Bill Condon
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Why
  • Mean
  • Boy

• I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Seeing

• Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Deep

• For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Real
  • Why

• I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

  

  David Arquette
  • Mexican
  • Gangster

• In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Quality

• I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

  

  Diego Luna
  • American
  • Son
  • Mexican

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

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