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Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.

George Lopez

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George Lopez
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 23
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Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.
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I look at movies, unfortunately, and I still see a lot of movies [lacking diversity].
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When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that? You're going to see the strings. But they did.
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I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
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Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!
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Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts.
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Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!
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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
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I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.
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Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.
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If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
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