Carlos Mencia Quotes

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

I still do standup.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I'm very 'preacher-ish' on stage, not by intent but because that's where I learned to talk in front of people.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

I write all my sermons.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.