Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Luna
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican actor Diego Luna.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.
My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.
Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
When I saw 'Incendios,' it changed the way I looked at my life... and my family. It was very strong. I believe that theater has that power.
I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.
I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.
I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.
You don't want everyone to know everything about you.
When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.
You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.
In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.
I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.
We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.
There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.
Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.
When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.
Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.
Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.
In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.
Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.
I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'
There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.
It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.
Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.
If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.
I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.
I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.
You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.
When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.
In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.
Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.
I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
My father had to play the role of mother and father.
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