149 Quotes by George Lopez

By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

When things are bad, it’s the best time to reinvent yourself.

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother’s house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

I got a pain in my chest, and I can’t breathe.

I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they’re in the same house, they live independently. I think that’s how I live with the Chihuahuas.

I’d shake his hand, but I think that’s what’s holding up his pants.

I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don’t know how to put it into words. When I’m on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.

I didn’t want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.