Carlos Mencia Quotes

I like to improvise.

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I've never been good at improvising.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.