Cristela Alonzo Quotes

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word ... A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

In Texas, they're very proud of being cowboys. It's a different atmosphere - a lot more agricultural. I can't, living here in Jersey, predict who they are. It's called respecting the community.

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person who was complicated and intense.

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

I think there's still a lot of room in 'Riverdale' for that. Asexuality is not one of those things, in my research, that is so understood at face value, and I think maybe the development of that narrative could also be something very interesting and very unique and still resonate with people and not step on anyone's toes.