We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.