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 Thank God for the theater. Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
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A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
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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.
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You know that for the first time in history, we have the means, the knowledge, the agricultural know-how and the economic resources to end hunger.
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I was even offered some things that I didn`t really feel were right for me for a lot of money, more money than I was making in the theater.
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You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
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I would smoke a cigar once in a while, but mostly cigarettes. I was lucky. I just stopped smoking cigarettes and went back to cigars.
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I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
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We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
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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.
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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.
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.
What`s behind me is not important!
Trivia
Member of the Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity in Puerto Rico
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Was originally supposed to play Don Diego De la Vega in The Mask of Zorro (1998), but died before he could take the role.
Originally cast for the role of Bucho in Desperado (1995), but he got sick during filming and had to be replaced. He passed away shortly after.
He is the only man to win the Emmy and the Golden Globe posthumously.
He is one of a few artists to be given a state funeral in his native Puerto Rico.
Member of the Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity in Puerto Rico.
His father was the pioneer who brought pizza to Puerto Rico when he added it to the menu of his already popular fried chicken.
He was a passionate supporter of The Hunger Project, a foundation devoted to the elimination of world hunger. For 17 years, he served as the Project`s spokesperson.
Godfather of writer Mylo Carbia.
Earned a B.A. in drama from University of Puerto Rico.
Buried at Buxeda Cemetery (Cemeterio Buxeda) in Cupey, Puerto Rico.
Died while in a coma just days before his last theatrical movie, Street Fighter (1994), was finished. That film is dedicated to his memory.
Was nominated for four Best Actor (Musical) Tony Awards: in 1972, for playing Valentine in "Two Gentlemen of Verona," in 1975 for a revival of "Where`s Charley?," in 1977, for playing Macheath in a revival of "The Threepenny Opera," and in 1982 for "Nine." He never won.
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