“Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his ...” — George Lopez 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.”

“It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.”

“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.”

“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.'”

“In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.”

“When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.”

“I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.”

“I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.”

“Honestly, and seriously, I know I have to do a Telugu film. It was my grandmother's dream to see me in a Telugu film before she died. I couldn't fulfil her dream before she passed away, but I don't want to let go of it, either.”

“My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.”

“Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?”

“My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.”