It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Through you, I see me. Through me, I see you.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.