My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies.

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.

I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.