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" 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. "

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" I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and sometimes they'll all be dramas, or they'll all be comedies, or there will be two dramas and a comedy, and then I'll go for whatever. If I have to audition, I'll audition. If it's an offer, great. "

Michael Pena

Comedy

Great

Three

" I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better. "

" I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool. "

" My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie 'Chavez.' And at the same time, it was when all the bailouts were happening. "

" I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them. "

" I'd love to work with Woody Allen. "

" I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked. "

Michael Pena

Reading

Sports

" 'Spider-Man' seems to have a different tone to the pure Marvel stuff, but I really enjoyed the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' and 'Iron Man' movies. I love the special effects and how it seems very real, but at the same time, it still lives within the realm of Marvel. That's got to be a lot of work. "

" It would be great to play Cesar Chavez. That would be an interesting role for me. "

Michael Pena

Role

Play

" 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. "

" I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders. "

" I'll do anything to make my kid laugh. "

" When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too. "

" What's funny isn't really me. What I do is point out what I find funny in others. "

" There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean? "

" I'm envious of writers. "

Michael Pena

Envious

Writers

" I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood. "

" I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them. "

" For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it. "

Michael Pena

Best

Imagination

" Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming. "

" I'm super grateful, and whenever somebody offers me something, and I'm doing it, I always try to give 110%. "

Michael Pena

Give

Try

" 'Tower Heist?' That is a movie that it's hard not to name-drop, but, it's a crew of five, and it's Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, me, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck. And we're like, on a heist. "

Michael Pena

Crew

" I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it. "

" I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do. "

" I was a quiet kid - I didn't think I needed to be the funniest guy. I was always more of a listener. I went to 12 different schools, and I wasn't the charismatic dude, but I was captain of the track team and wrestling team. "

" You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game. "

" I'm into looking at things from the other point of view. And if you look at who votes in the Oscars, mostly older Jewish guys, they're going to vote for stuff they relate to. Do they relate to NWA? I doubt it. "

" I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree. "

" The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that. "

" One of my favorite movies is 'Broadway Danny Rose.' "