It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

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.

I choose to be alone cause I wanted to experience freedom, but I realized that freedom needs a companionship

... I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I’ve ever made.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.