Top 637 Quotes & Sayings by Cuban Authors - Page 4

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

People really saw themselves in a big way in Elian Gonzalez's story.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.

The Cubs have never expressed any interest in re-signing me, as far as I know.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

I consider myself to be a very loyal person.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

I've never hurt anybody, never in my life. That's not my character or who I am.

I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Where there's a storm, from one moment to the next, God can bring calm. That's why I have faith. I confide in him and give myself to his hands.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

You take the experience, and now it's a matter of preparing yourself mentally and physically so that in the future if you find yourself in situations like that, you're able to succeed.

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

I'm going to try to continue to try to speak English because I live in the United States.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

First of all, I am a man of God, and God is love. My expressions are always going to be about love.

When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.

I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't need to write in Miami.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me.

A selfish man is a thief.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I never don't make weight.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

The truth is that I'm not very disciplined with diets. In general, I do whatever makes me happy in life, and food makes me quite happy!

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.