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I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Demian Bichir

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Demian Bichir
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 1
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As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.
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I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.
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If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.
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As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.
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I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.
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A lot of the things that I’ve learned in the past have been from dear friends. Rodriguez’s favorite line is “Fácil!” Easy! He makes things easy. He doesn’t complicate his life. He’s obsessed with perfection, but he makes it easy, and that’s pretty much the way I work as an actor.
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Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.
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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
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I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
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I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.
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Don’t complicate whatever is not complicated.
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One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two with celebrities at Old Trafford, at the house of Manchester United.
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Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
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I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.
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I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
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I think it's very interesting how an American network chooses to tell this story. We don't name one country the good guy and the other country the bad guy. We talk about this co-responsibility that we share, in everything.
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My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
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One of the first things that my English teacher told when I began studying in New York was, You're here because if you pick it up from the street, not everyone speaks good English. And it happens all the time, anywhere. If you pick up Spanish from the streets, you're not going to be able to speak it correctly.
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I try to be as clear as I can be.
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We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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