As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.

Let's try to present the same gospel but in a fresh fashion, always looking for a better way to connect with the audience.

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.