Carlos Mencia Quotes

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Carlos Mencia

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 22, 1967

Chicago is pretty much my favorite city to perform in. For some reason, people from the Chicago area have an amazing attitude.

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I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up.

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The cool thing about going to Vegas is that it's kind of like visiting a bunch of cities all at one time. All the shows and great restaurants leave you with a lot of options.

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The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

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I was never one of those fat-victim people. I always have to address how much weight I lost, and people always realize then how fat I was.

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I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some jokes. I don't have words for it. It's so overwhelming.

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The really funny thing is that most all of my friends who are priests have seen me perform, and they say, 'I wish I could talk the way you do on stage. I wish I could reveal truth to my congregation the way you do.'

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On stage, I'm really, really tall. I'm five-foot-9, but on stage, I'm, like, six-foot-5.

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I have 11 sisters and 6 brothers.

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When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at me!' Now I'm more of a Taoist.

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I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

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When you have a TV show, and you're selling out 10,000 seats or whatever the hell it is, it's not that it becomes easy. It's just that's what your life is like.

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I choose to live in a positive world and a positive presence.

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Here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends, who don't judge you, what do you say? And if that's appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like, I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.

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When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.

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At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

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I was born in Honduras, and everything there is really chill, and people don't worry about having to get something overnighted by FedEx. Maui has that same sort of vibe, but everyone speaks English.

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The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me - what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn't my fault.

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When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do.

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