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" A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. "

" Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. "

" They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel. "

" What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. "

" I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. "

" So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. "

" The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position. "

" In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. "

" And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. "

" Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country. "

" There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. "

" It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. "

" We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. "

" So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. "

" Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. "

" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "

" I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong. "

" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. "

" So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. "

" There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. "

" But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. "

" In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. "

" My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. "

" I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. "

" People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. "

" I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. "

" It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. "

" I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds. "

" At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge. "

" Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. "