Gabriel Iglesias's Quotes

I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.

As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.