True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.

The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.