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" I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and make it as spontaneous as possible, but acting in sitcoms is such a skill set, and I didn't have it. I wish I did back when I was younger. "

Michael Pena

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" I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week. "

" My understanding, when I think of immigration, is like... you know, this country was built on immigrants: the German, the Polish, the Italian, the Jewish, the Russians, the Eastern Europeans. So, all these people came in, and I don't know who decided like, 'No, that's it! There's a cap on it! No more people.' "

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" '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. "

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

" I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants. "

" 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. "

" I loved WWF as a kid. "

" 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. "

" I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run. "

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" I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters. "