Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
I love what I do. I would hate to give it up. But if I could, I would run for office in Texas. I would run someplace heinous to make a difference.
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.
I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
In theater, you can be free. That's how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with 'Hamilton': color-blind casting in roles in which they would never cast Latinos if it were a film or TV show. It just goes to show that Hollywood and cable are way behind.
I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.
