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" It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts. "

Guillermo Diaz

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" I would love to do more horror films. "

Guillermo Diaz

Would

Horror Films

" I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects. "

" I would totally do a Madonna or Lady Gaga video. "

" Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does. "

" When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do. "

" I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count. "

" I'm a huge horror film and sci-fi fan. "

" I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell. "

" I'm obsessed with 'Girls.' "

Guillermo Diaz

Obsessed

" I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really speak English, so I don't think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil. "

Guillermo Diaz

Devil

Girl

" I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back. "

Guillermo Diaz

Never

Loved

" I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants. "

" I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting. "

" I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. "

Guillermo Diaz

Laughter

School

" I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes. "

" When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell? "

Guillermo Diaz

Words

Shy

" I'm just a big old nerd. I'm not that cool guy at all. "

" I have phone sessions with my therapist, who is in New York, constantly, just to talk and get it out. "

" I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward. "

Guillermo Diaz

Loner

Awkward

" It's always nice to do the flashbacks. That's what's so great about 'Scandal' is that we get to do flashbacks and then keep figuring out and discovering more things about our characters that make them fuller. "

" I love 'The Walking Dead.' "