Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I love doing voiceover work.
I used to work in Starbucks.
I've played a lot of cop parts.
I have no particular career agenda.
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
I've never given a bad audition in my life.
It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.
Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.
I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.
I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.
Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.
There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.
As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.
The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
My brother Peter was always the life of the party, and so the running joke for the first 12 years of my life was he was Pete, and I was 'Re-Pete.'
We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?
I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.
No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies.
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There's no ambiguity there.
I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.
I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.
I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
I'm used to the fact that the world views movie actors as personalities. I'm in the extremely fortunate position of making a living at something I'm passionate about. It's all about choices. By the nature of what I do, I make a choice. I invite them in.
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.