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Quotes by Puerto-rican Authors
"No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot."
"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."
"Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else."
"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give."
"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."
"Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."
"New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from."
"The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'"
"I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable."
"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."
"You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba."
"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."
"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
"The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes."
"I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots."
"I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself."
"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."
"I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable."
"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
"Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal."
"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."
"Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one."
"I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?"
"I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek."
"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners."
"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."
"Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself."
"I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread."
"I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment."
"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."
"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
"I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy."
"But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace."
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
"Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro."
"I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore."
"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."
"If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body."
"I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes."
"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."
"Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present."
"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."
"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."
"You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately."
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