In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

I try to give my kids everything I never had.

The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

Beware of people who tell you it can't be done. They want to remain on the market alone

I was no good at being a child.

The public is never wrong.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.

Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.