Jordi Molla Quotes
-
Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.
-
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. I'm great at pasta, fish and nice salads.
-
There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
-
After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.
-
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
-
I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.
-
It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It's hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.
-
If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.
-
I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
-
My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.
-
I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.
-
When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.
-
In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before I go home to check my emails from Spain, which have been coming in all night.