I’m an actor, I’m always looking for work. I was born to do that.
I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search, of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It’s just not a good way to think. It’s non-thinking. It’s stupid and destructive.
I think that no matter how much you don’t like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
The world’s not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
If military movies were automatically successful we’d make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
All my life I’ve had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.
I don’t consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.
I don’t do anything that is not fun. I just don’t do it.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I’m not a spokesman for anything.
I don’t fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
The most important question in American cinema, I’ve learned, is ‘When is lunch?’
I don’t direct movies for a living.
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you’re not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you’ve done together with friends is a privilege.