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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
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I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.
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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.'
