You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.