It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.


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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino act...
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm....
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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playin...
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The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remembe...
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, see...
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is...
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,&...
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of...
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