American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.