Gabriel Iglesias

“In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible.....”

“I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.”

“I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but i...”

“I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.”

“Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.”

“As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.”

“I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.”

“Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get in...”

“I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won'...”

“You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.”

“Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.”