Diego Luna Quotes

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Diego Luna

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 29, 1979

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

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I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

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Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

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Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.

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We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

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In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.

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You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.

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We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.

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Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

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For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

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With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

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I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

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We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.

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I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.

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I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.

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There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.

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Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

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When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

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When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

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I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

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