Before I got into stand-up, I was a really quiet guy who had all these thoughts, all these things I wanted to say, but there was never anyplace for me to say them because my mom would look at me and go, ‘You better not say what you’re thinking. You better not.’ Carlos Mencia Read Quote
The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of story. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
I’m a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love, and what makes us godly. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
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. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
We don’t grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
When I was young and didn’t have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
I am living in a world where I am happy and doing what I love and making others happy. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
When I was a kid, I was in love with one of the ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ I told my dad, ‘I’m going to marry somebody like Cheryl Ladd.’ My dad said, ‘You’re not that good-looking, mijo. You’re going to have to make a lot of money if that’s what you want.’ I went, ‘Well, I want that, so I’m going to make money.’ Carlos Mencia Read Quote
I have been recording every single one of my shows since 1994. Every single joke I’ve ever done is on a hard drive. I can tell you when I wrote every joke I wrote. I can tell you the first time I said it, when I made it different, when I made it better. Carlos Mencia Read Quote
