Famous quotes by Actors

"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends"

"You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float"

"When I get sad I stop being sad and be AWESOME instead. True story!"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway"

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions"

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that"

"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means"

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops"

"If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?"

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable"

"If I have enough money to eat I'm good"

"What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine"

"I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general"

"I like the gypsy aspect of this business"

"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer"

"Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper"

"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment"

"In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community"

"I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others"

"Celebrity hits like a bomb"

"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"

"You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist"

"When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system"

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting"

"I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me"