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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate."

"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."

"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."

"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that."

"It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me."
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