Alex Meraz Quotes
I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
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'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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I'm not built like a leading man.
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I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.
