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For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

Wilmer Valderrama

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Wilmer Valderrama
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 30
Actor
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Miami
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Wilmer Eduardo Valderrama
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Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves with any kind of job we have that we kind of forget that we do this because it's supposed to be fun because we love it.
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I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.
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There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.
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You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.
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I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.
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I love the human mind.
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My dad had a couple of professions in mind for me. He either wanted me to be a doctor because he said male doctors make a lot of money, or he wanted me to be a soccer player. Myself, I thought that I would really love being a pilot for the Air Force. I really wanted to be a part of the Air Force.
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Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.
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For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.
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Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.
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It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.
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As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.
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Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.
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I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.
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I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.
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As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.
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I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.
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I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought Wow. It became a project that was just so exciting to be a part of. Maybe a few times in a career [you] get a chance for a role that really means something, and this was it.
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