Al Madrigal Quotes

#1. As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

Jessica Williams

#2. It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

Dave Grohl

#3. When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'

Al Madrigal

#4. The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

Robert Agostinelli

#5. I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'

Al Madrigal

#6. Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Al Madrigal

#7. Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

#8. I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

Al Madrigal

#9. There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

Al Madrigal

#10. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Al Madrigal

#11. You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

Al Madrigal

#12. I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

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#13. I'm not much for setup ... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

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#14. I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

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#15. Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

Molly Ivins

#16. People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

Al Madrigal

#17. I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

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#18. She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

Euripides

#19. Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

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#20. There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.

Al Madrigal

#21. If money affects who you love, then it isn't really love.

Garth Stein

#22. I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

Al Madrigal

#23. My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Al Madrigal

#24. For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.

Andrew Sandlin

#25. I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

Al Madrigal

#26. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

Jocelyn Murray

#27. If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Joel Osteen

#28. My primary responsibility is to be funny.

Al Madrigal

#29. A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

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#30. Her life was one giant clusterfuck of crazy, she was the epicenter, and no matter what she did to outrun her own personally designed hurricane there it was sweeping her off to Oz.

V. Theia

#31. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.

Gayle Roper

#32. The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Al Madrigal

#33. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Frida Kahlo

#34. I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

Al Madrigal

#35. I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.

Al Madrigal

#36. Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

David Levinthal

#37. I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

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#38. Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Madrigal

#39. God will always respond to our responsible management of the riches we have received from Him with promotion and stability

Sunday Adelaja

#40. I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

Al Madrigal

#41. If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

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#42. Ben was a man living his dream. As if anyone could compete with that. Maybe he'd liked the idea of me. Reality was, however, there'd never been room for me in his life.

Kylie Scott