I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.
My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.
I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.
My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
Fearless people are interesting to watch.
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
I love great animation.
I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.
Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.
I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.
"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.
Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.
I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.
None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.
I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.
