Words matter. These are the best Cristela Alonzo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that’s what I went towards.
My favorite movie is ‘Die Hard.’ It doesn’t have pinatas and mariachis. It’s just a good movie.
A lot of my material was based on my family.
I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.
My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we’re completely like everybody else.
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
I can’t tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn’t have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom’s death.
I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that’s a dimension that you don’t see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner – we were basically squatters.
I couldn’t afford therapy, so I just watched ‘Frasier.’ Season 4 was a breakthrough.
We don’t have enough Latinos on TV just getting cast in supporting roles; the idea of having your own show named after you seemed like such a long shot.
I’m not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, ‘My family doesn’t do that.’
There aren’t any concrete steps to becoming a comic.
The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn’t a stereotype.
As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew… we’re a very small group. We’re very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together.
I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world… and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.
