Carlos Mencia Quotes

Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

We should have been born in the Caribbean. We like the heat.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

Hawaii is so boring because it's always sunny.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

I think life is a little more basic here in Australia. There aren't so many distractions. People seem to feel they can be kinder with each other here, I think, to a greater extent than in the States.

I was born and raised in Hawaii.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

That's what I considered Cuba to be... the most loving place I've ever been in my life. And the fact that there's no crime. You walk in the street at any time, and you feel like nothing is going to happen.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

You have to do your talking on the pitch. I don't talk much in England - mainly because of the language.