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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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"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."

"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

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

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."

"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."
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