Richard Cabral Quotes

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

How I was raised is what I am today.

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

People forget that the more we know about the world - about people, cultures, and about life - the stronger we are as actors because the more we can bring to our characters.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All those method guys - like that De Niro, Stallone, and what's his name, Pacino - they're all the same.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.