Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

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

Mother came to New York to keep house for me.

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.