Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not something that ever ends, because as you grow as a person, so does your capacity to play different characters. New things come up, new things you want to explore and new stories you want tell about life and your knowledge of things. I don't think there's ever going to be that satisfaction of "and now, comfort."

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.