I didn’t come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV. George Lopez Read Quote
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. George Lopez Read Quote
I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don’t need a strong political background in. George Lopez Read Quote
The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning. George Lopez Read Quote
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn’t swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. George Lopez Read Quote
In life, there’s a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don’t have balance, you have comedy. George Lopez Read Quote
Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever. George Lopez Read Quote
I don’t know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short with a beginning, middle, and end. A guy standing there seems a little old – especially when you can go on the Internet and see ‘Funny or Die.’ George Lopez Read Quote
When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps. George Lopez Read Quote
