Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

Jennifer [Palmieri], could it possibly be that Hillary Clinton just doesn't connect with people, that she just doesn't relate to people, that Hillary Clinton doesn't have anything in common with anybody?

Donald Trump connected in ways with people no one else did.

I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

When I started out, the most terrifying thing was when I had to be very, very emotional in front of lots of people. Now I've kind of learned that it is very important to keep talking all day, keep making jokes, and be connected with people, and be present. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. I learned that is sort of the way I need to be.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.