Al Lopez Quotes

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

Surfing is attitude dancing.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

What gods do you pray to?

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.

If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

I have to work, for my soul.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.