Latest Gabriel Iglesias Quotes from Interviews

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• As far as "uncut" I think we all know that you guys cut up the special. Originally it was going to be 2 hours plus and it got chopped down so I said "we can't use those words because it's not going to represent me right".

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Cutting, Thinking, Guy

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Dirty, Argument, Problem

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Anyone who's seen my specials knows I don't put out the same stuff twice.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Stuff, Knows

  Source: goseetalk.com

• I've already produced one hour specials for other comedians and I have a TV show called Stand Up Revolution where I showcase new talent and so I'd like to continue to do stuff like that and help out the next guy.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Tv Shows, Guy, Comedian

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Direct, Get Back

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they're doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes "you want a falcon?".

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Guy, Want

  Source: goseetalk.com

• The girl voice is always going to kill because they don't expect it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Girl, Voice

  Source: goseetalk.com

• People see a big dude and they hear that high pitched voice or "Eglasias with an 'I'" and love it because they can relate and go "I know that person!".

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Voice, People, And Love

  Source: goseetalk.com

• I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Cute, Kids, Voice

  Source: goseetalk.com

• I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Fans, Half, Hours

  Source: goseetalk.com

• There are certain bits in my act that will never change.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Never Change, Certain, Bits

  Source: goseetalk.com

• I've got foundation jokes, the ones that got me where I am, so everything I do just builds on top of that.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Foundation, Jokes

  Source: goseetalk.com

• By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Real, Character, Voice

  Source: goseetalk.com

• People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the picture, or even stories about family members not seeing eye to eye with what you're doing.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Dad, Real, Eye

  Source: goseetalk.com

• If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Stories, Personal Stories

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me "Gabe, my blood sugar is out of control and I feel you". That's the first thing they say, they say "I feel you!".

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Blood, Talking, People

  Source: goseetalk.com

• My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Girlfriend, Home, Mind

  Source: goseetalk.com

• People can relate to someone who isn't perfect.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Perfect, Relate

  Source: goseetalk.com

• I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Able, Stuff

  Source: goseetalk.com

• By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  School, Class, Everyday

  Source: goseetalk.com

• Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

• I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

  Source: goseetalk.com

• [Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Dream, People, Laughing

  Source: goseetalk.com

• The response you get when you're young like "oh you're just getting laughs because you're a little kid and you're cute". They weren't trying to encourage me at all or tell me to keep pursuing this.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Cute, Kids, Laughing

  Source: goseetalk.com

• The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Character, Years, People

  Source: goseetalk.com