Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.

It's hard to get laughs when you're new.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

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 started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.

I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel the vibe of the audience turn, and they start laughing. It's how you know something's not right, and how to fix it, or how to make the moment stronger or funnier.

Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for the show, they gave me a list of people, and Rosie O'Donnell was one of them. I said, "I don't really need any opening acts. I have funny stuff in the show, and I do a lot of comedy and stuff."

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.