I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.