I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

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.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.