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.
Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.
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 sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
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.
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
I have no particular career agenda.
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
