There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.