Danny Trejo Quotes
Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.
Trejo, Danny, and Donal Logue. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood. Atria Books, 2021, p. 55.
Dan Trejo is an American character actor and restaurateur who has appeared in numerous and various Hollywood films. His films include Heat (1995), Con Air (1997), Bubble Boy (2001), and Desperado (1995), the latter with frequent collaborator and his second cousin Robert Rodriguez. Trejo was perhaps most recognized as the character Machete, originally developed by Rodriguez for the Spy Kids series of movies and later expanded into Trejo's own series of films aimed at a more adult audience. He has appeared in TV shows such as Stargate Atlantis, Breaking Bad, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The X-Files, King of the Hill, The Flash, and Sons of Anarchy. He has also appeared in several music videos for the American band Slayer.