There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

If you dare ask questions, you will find the answers.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter