Cristela Alonzo Quotes

• Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Hard Work, Want, Happens

  "Cristela Alonzo, Making Funny Her Own Way". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Voice, Giving, Sound

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• I think social media can be harmful and helpful at the same time. I started in 2003 ... back then, we didn't have the connection to the rest of the world that we have now. The fact that we can make bad behavior more public, it makes us more aware.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Thinking, World, Social Media

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Progress, Harassment

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Dream, Survival, Trying

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• I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

  Cristela Alonzo

  Community, Trying, Different

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• When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Names, People, Liberty

  "Five Things to Know About ABC's 'Cristela'" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do exist. We have to show real life on TV and film. And we don't. We only see maybe 5 percent of what real people are really like. I mean, movies set in Los Angeles that don't have any minorities in them - how does that happen?

  Cristela Alonzo

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Goal, Different, Culture

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• I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Home, Texas, Years

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Years, Ideas, Shows

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• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Opportunity, Blue, Stories

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• Hollywood needs to make a better job of making sure we explore the other side the spectrum. If you have a very macho guy, maybe have more of the opposite who aren't like that, who can still get the girl.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Girl, Guy, Macho

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Becoming, Steps, Comic

  "Five Things to Know About ABC's 'Cristela'" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Mom, Kids, Feel Good

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• As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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• A lot of my material was based on my family.

  Cristela Alonzo

  My Family, Materials

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• Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Watches, Grew Up, Grew

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• The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Eight, Years, Diners

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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