Esai Morales Quotes
How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
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How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'
