Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Raul Julia

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Raul Julia

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he took an interest in acting while still in school and pursued the career upon completion of his studies. After performing locally for some time, he was convinced by actor and entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He took over the role of Orson in the Off-Broadway hit Your Own Thing, a rock musical update of Twelfth Night. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one. — © Raul Julia
Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
Thank God for the theater.
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. — © Raul Julia
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
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