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'Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and...

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.