“I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.”

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you’re from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that’s always funny.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.

I have no particular career agenda.

I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close.

As a person of color, there’s no getting around the reality of its responsibility.

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I’m most passionate about, pale by comparison.

I think there’s a settled quality, there’s a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there’s nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.