Al Lopez Quotes

I have to work, for my soul.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved.

Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

You can't take life for granted.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

I love the challenge.

I don't really check out other people's butts.

Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

You've gotta do things that make you happy.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull.

I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

Never practice without a thought in mind.

I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.

Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.