Comedy requires a lot of energy.

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

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