I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.

I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.

I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.

You don't have the same experiences as all of your friends, hopefully. Instead, you meet people and something clicks.

i trust our connection, regardless of what logic has to say.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

Gifts are like hooks.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.