Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him.

I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.

My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.