George Lopez Quotes

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

Of all the life skills I could have learned - First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.

You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.

The thing with the comedian is you can make all the jokes you want and not every joke it going to be a winner, and not every joke is going to land, there'll be some that somebody doesn't laugh at, but that's just part of the deal.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

It was bad for a stuntman to have a reputation for being hurt, and worse yet to report it.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.