They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

'Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

I never rode a motorcycle before 'CHiPs.'

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

I'm a deputy sheriff.

Listen, the Latin people, I love the Latin people. They are so loyal to you. Even if you haven't been on TV for thirty years, they still love you. And they cherish you and give you respect. You're not fast food in the Latin market.

Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him.

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.

Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so seriously. I probably wouldn't have listened, but if I did, I would have saved myself some heartache along the way.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

I love September, especially when we're in it.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

They are many wounded hearts here. Many Some admit. Others the stubborn ones scribble poetry instead.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

I don't want to be a senator.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Celebrate your inner beauty, but buy mascara as a backup.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.