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" I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.' "
Edgar Ramirez
Know
Friends
You
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" Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches. "
Edgar Ramirez
Unique
See
Boxing
" What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned. "
Edgar Ramirez
Humble
Son
American
" Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who handles big amounts of information, and for me, that was very important. "
Edgar Ramirez
Paper
Me
Jail
" I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is. "
Edgar Ramirez
Myself
Know
Boxing
" I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this. "
Edgar Ramirez
Person
Finish
Me
" I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors. "
Edgar Ramirez
Smart
Think
Experience
" I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal. "
Edgar Ramirez
Had
Understand
Nothing
" Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense. "
Edgar Ramirez
Endurance
Perfect
Sports
" I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat. "
Edgar Ramirez
Communications
Diplomat
Political
" I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film. "
Edgar Ramirez
Think
I Think
Actor
" Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands. "
Edgar Ramirez
Fight
Pride
Time
" In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone. "
Edgar Ramirez
Living
Bad
Good
" Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head. "
Edgar Ramirez
Fight
Win
Mind
" You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona. "
Edgar Ramirez
School
Opportunity
You
" For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. "
Edgar Ramirez
Value
Me
Life
" Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies. "
Edgar Ramirez
Picture
Stereotypes
Believe
" The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that. "
Edgar Ramirez
Environment
Rich
Deep
" I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. "
Edgar Ramirez
Nature
Human Nature
Deep
" I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema. "
Edgar Ramirez
Work
Think
Place
" I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight. "
Edgar Ramirez
Person
Aggressive
Know
" Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves. "
Edgar Ramirez
Sound
Ocean
Evolution
" I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression. "
Edgar Ramirez
Fight
Story
Spiritual
" Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media. "
Edgar Ramirez
Secret
Radical
Media
" I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness. "
Edgar Ramirez
Work
Will
Light
" My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight. "
Edgar Ramirez
Know
Fight
Myself
" Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure. "
Edgar Ramirez
Always
Legacy
Imagery
" I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist. "
Edgar Ramirez
College
Human Nature
Nature
" I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' - that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play. "
Edgar Ramirez
Star
Me
Free
" That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections. "
Edgar Ramirez
Compassion
Care
Empathy
" If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face. "
Edgar Ramirez
Truth Is
Family
People