Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes. "
Al Madrigal
Serious
Always
Friend
Related Quotes:
" 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
Reason
Song
Too Much
" My primary responsibility is to be funny. "
Al Madrigal
Responsibility
Funny
Primary
" 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. "
Al Madrigal
Move
Just
Front
" 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
Great
See
You
" My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house. "
Al Madrigal
Song
Daughter
House
" I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything. "
Al Madrigal
Way
Feel
Group
" My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music. "
Al Madrigal
Son
Well
Music
" 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
Pretty
Voice
Doing
" 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
Me
Daily
Reality
" I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife. "
Al Madrigal
Talk
Punch
Much
" 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
Day
Tradition
Latino
" 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
I Am
Lazy
Me
" 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. "
Al Madrigal
Marriage
Husband
Down
" If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down. "
Al Madrigal
You
Down
Way
" 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
Never Forget
Son
Walking
" I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour. "
Al Madrigal
Opportunity
People
Good
" A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking. "
Al Madrigal
Like
Latinos
Generation
" I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity. "
Al Madrigal
Ethnicity
Doing
Makes
" 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
Weird
You
Serious
" 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
Impossible
Curse
Turn