The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.
Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 247, working like a Mexican.
With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.
When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it. " Then you feel, "I can do it too. "
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.
America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.