I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly.