Carlos Mencia Quotes

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Carlos Mencia

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 22, 1967

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

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The weight loss came about because a buddy of mine who was diagnosed with diabetes because of his obesity told me that I was fat. And I started laughing, and he was like, 'No seriously, you're fat.' And I said, 'Oh wow, really.'

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'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

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Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just going, 'Oh really, so why do you think that?' And they're just looking at a piece of paper.

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The easiest thing to do is put someone in a file of somebody you already know. 'Hey, you remind me of Sam Kinison' or 'You remind me of Richard Pryor.' That's fine, because I know that's the process. Eventually, my own file will be created.

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When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

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I never want to forget that my job is to make people laugh.

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I grew up Mexican.

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When I was born, I was given to my uncle and aunt to raise as their kid because they couldn't have kids.

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I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

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Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.

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I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

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All this stuff that went down, the joke-stealing accusations, me not wanting to do 'Mind of Mencia' anymore. All these things made me look inside myself.

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It's a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.

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Before I got into stand-up, I was a really quiet guy who had all these thoughts, all these things I wanted to say, but there was never anyplace for me to say them because my mom would look at me and go, 'You better not say what you're thinking. You better not.'

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If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

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The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

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For me, it's always better to tell people the truth, because people can accept the truth.

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I get really nervous at auditions. I know how to make people laugh, but auditions just really make me nervous.

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I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

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