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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.
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I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!
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There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
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I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
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At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
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As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
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The Latino population has become such a presence. We are part of the American tapestry in a very profound way, in every area you can think of, and are very significant in popular culture.
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We're at a point right now in our development in this country - setting the immigration issue aside - that you can't ignore the sheer population of us in metropolitan areas all across the country, of how significant Latino-ness is in the United States.
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When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.
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Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.
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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
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Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
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I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.
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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.
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It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.
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Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.
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I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.
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I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.
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When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.
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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
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I almost feel like sometimes when I'm on location, you miss your home and your family and all that stuff, but it keeps you focused on the work.
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Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.
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It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'
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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
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I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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