Mexican famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
-- Aaron Sanchez -
Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
-- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.
-- Albert G. Brown -
And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
-- Alex Cox -
I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.
-- Anthony Quinn -
I took three steps back; he nudged the door closed with his foot. “You like Mexican?†he asked. “I—†I’d like to know what you’re doing inside my house! “Tacos?†“Tacos?†I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. “Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese.†“I know what a taco is!
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
-- Bill Condon -
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
-- Billy Connolly -
From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.
-- Biloine W. Young -
I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!
-- Brenda Song -
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.
-- C. M. Mayo -
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.
-- Cesar Millan -
I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.
-- Cesar Millan -
Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.
-- Cheech Marin -
Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.
-- Chris Rock -
If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
-- Dave Mustaine -
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
-- David Arquette -
I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.
-- Dean Ambrose -
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.
-- Diego Rivera -
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
-- Dinaw Mengestu -
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor -
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
-- Elton Gallegly -
I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto -
I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
-- Erin Gruwell -
I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this.
-- Ernesto Zedillo -
Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I’ll be eating it,
-- Eva Longoria -
I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.
-- Eva Longoria -
In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.
-- Eva Longoria -
I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
-- Ezra Koenig -
Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
-- Freddy Fender -
I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal -
My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
-- Guy Clark -
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.
-- Heather Wilson -
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.
-- James Alexander Thom -
My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.
-- James Roday -
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
-- Joe Baca -
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears
-- John Culberson -
I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.
-- Joseph Bruce -
I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America.
-- Katt Williams -
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
-- Lauren Velez -
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
-- Lee Trevino -
I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
-- Lee Trevino -
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
-- Linda Ronstadt -
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
-- M. Ward -
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...
-- Marty Robbins -
In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.
-- Michael Lewis -
Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.
-- Michael Oppenheimer -
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
-- Mike Greenberg -
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
-- Muhammad Ali -
The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.
-- Nick Nolte -
Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.
-- Nonito Donaire -
I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
-- Randall Cobb -
Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent...
-- Richard Hammond -
Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.
-- Richard Hammond -
In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.
-- Richard Rodriguez -
In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.
-- Rick Bayless -
The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable
-- Rick Bayless -
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
-- Rufino Tamayo -
You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American.
-- Russell Means -
I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
-- Salma Hayek -
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
-- Salma Hayek -
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
-- Sam Houston -
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
-- Sam Peckinpah -
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title
-- Sergio Martinez -
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
-- Stanislav Grof -
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
-- Stephen F. Lynch -
It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'
-- Steven Michael Quezada -
People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
-- Tamala Jones -
Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.
-- Todd Starnes -
I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
-- Tom DeLonge -
There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women — full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work — are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
-- Vicente Fox -
If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.
-- Vicente Fox -
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
-- William H. Wharton -
Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.
-- Wiz Khalifa -
For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
-- Yelawolf -
The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support.
-- Alfonso Herrera -
If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.
-- Ana Claudia Talancon -
There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.
-- Christian Camargo -
The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.
-- Dinesh D'Souza -
Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.
-- Felipe Esparza -
I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.
-- Felipe Esparza -
There is a culture of corruption in many parts of the Mexican media, of course. It seems that there are fewer and fewer media outlets that permit authentic free expressions. But Mexico also has extraordinary journalists who, despite the dangers they face, have also been leading the way in this battle, who've really played a role in keeping the cause of justice alive in the Ayotzinapa case. And no matter what, they'll keep doing that.
-- Francisco Goldman -
I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.
-- Francisco Goldman