Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living. "
Michael Pena
Inspire
Know
Living
Related Quotes:
" There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better. "
Michael Pena
Better
Creation
Work
" I didn't know too much about 'Ant-Man.' "
Michael Pena
About
Too Much
Know
" I was in really good shape after I finished this movie, 'End of Watch.' "
Michael Pena
End
Movie
Watch
" I'm super grateful, and whenever somebody offers me something, and I'm doing it, I always try to give 110%. "
Michael Pena
Me
Give
Try
" I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it. "
Michael Pena
Work Hard
Best
Great
" I usually joke around, especially on set. "
Michael Pena
Around
Set
Joke
" Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor. "
Michael Pena
Humor
Brand
Paul
" We all want approval. "
Michael Pena
Want
Approval
" A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys. "
Michael Pena
Play
Coach
Down
" When I watch movies with my kid like 'Shrek,' I'm like, 'Wow, this is pretty funny.' That's why I wanted to start doing movies like that - so my kid would laugh at my jokes. "
Michael Pena
Kid
Laugh
Doing
" A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. "
Michael Pena
Always
Good
Got
" My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show. "
Michael Pena
Friends
Coaching
Tough
" It would be great to play Cesar Chavez. That would be an interesting role for me. "
Michael Pena
Role
Play
Me
" It feels good, pouring your heart out over something, and then all of a sudden people are getting inspired. "
Michael Pena
Over
Heart
Good
" I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do. "
Michael Pena
Always
Guys
Than
" You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.' "
Michael Pena
Movies
You
Dead
" The reason I love Lollapalooza is because it's a great music festival. "
Michael Pena
Because
Reason
Music
" All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there's a lot of thought that goes into that. "
Michael Pena
Love
Passionate
Thought
" When I started wrestling, I sucked. I hated losing, so I started doing pushups and more squats, and then I did summer wrestling and learned different styles. "
Michael Pena
More
Doing
Wrestling
" I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them. "
Michael Pena
Always
Clearly
Writer
" I'll do anything to make my kid laugh. "
Michael Pena
Laugh
Kid
Make
" I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king. "
Michael Pena
End
King
Me
" I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian by any stretch of the imagination. "
Michael Pena
Good
You
Writing
" Some of my favorite actors are Gene Wilder and Eddie Murphy back in the day - that's mainly what me and my brothers watched when we were kids. "
Michael Pena
Kids
Brothers
Day
" I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school. "
Michael Pena
Remember
Dead
Society
" Drama is basically what I do, so it's a compliment that people think it's hard for me to get back to drama. "
Michael Pena
Compliment
Drama
Me
" I'd love to work with Woody Allen. "
Michael Pena
Woody Allen
Allen
Love
" I think about where I grew up and how I grew up: my dad was making $25,000 a year. Taking a chance wasn't really taking a chance. It was like you were going for something better. To me, there wasn't that much risk involved. "
Michael Pena
You
Better
Think
" I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little. "
Michael Pena
Myself
Individual
Little
" I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life. "
Michael Pena
Afraid
My Life
Play