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When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.
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As an actor, it's hard to approach any character with negatives.
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I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.
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My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.
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I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.
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Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.
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I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.
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I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.
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It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.
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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
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I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.
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I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.
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Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.
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When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
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The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the characters.
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When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.
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For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.
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I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.
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That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.
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I'm not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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All my Latino side is from the Bronx.
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The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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