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" There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean? "
Michael Pena
Cynical
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Know
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" One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar. "
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First
" I was in L.A., like, four months, and I got my first part. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm staying.' "
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" What's funny isn't really me. What I do is point out what I find funny in others. "
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" Every time I said, 'Man, I'm doing CHiPs,' 100% of the time they would ask, 'Is Erik Estrada going to be in it?' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Father
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" I didn't realise I lived in the ghetto until we moved out. "
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" There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration. "
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" There's a certain weird something. I'm always nervous when I spar. You learn it's going to hurt, but it's only going to hurt for a little bit. It brings out the animal in you to an extent. You learn what you can take. "
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Weird
You
Animal
" The reason I love Lollapalooza is because it's a great music festival. "
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Music
" 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. "
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Brothers
Day
" 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. "
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Better
Creation
Work
" I saw Gosling just kill it in 'Blue Valentine.' I thought he was just amazing at that, and I wouldn't mind maybe doing something like that. "
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Amazing
Doing
He
" Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing. "
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Read
Preacher
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" I didn't know too much about 'Ant-Man.' "
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About
Too Much
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" I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out. "
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Acting
Year
Band
" '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. "
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Man
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Time
" 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. "
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More
Doing
Wrestling
" It feels good, pouring your heart out over something, and then all of a sudden people are getting inspired. "
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Over
Heart
Good
" When I did 'Crash,' to be honest with you, it was just another acting job. I just wanted to do as good as I possibly could. "
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Job
Honest
Good
" 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. "
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Always
Captain
" You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can. "
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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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" 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. "
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Doubt
View
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" Regardless of whatever job you do, you want to see the importance of it or how it can be important. I think by inspiring the people that I come from - if I inspire anyone - would be worth it. "
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Job
People
Think
" 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. "
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Good
You
Writing
" I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants. "
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You
Kind
Know
" I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing. "
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Character
You