Richard Cabral Quotes

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Richard Cabral

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 28, 1984

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

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My father figures were all gang members.

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Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

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Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of art.

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No one cares about you when you're in jail.

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I'm definitely not joking around on set.

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I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

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I can't point my finger on a 'dream role,' but the days that I'm able to fulfill the stories of the 'hood/barrio on film, those will be great days.

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Art saved my life.

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I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.

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I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

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The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

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I remember my first thing was 'CSI: Miami.' I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, 'Wow, I don't have to clean toilets.' I could actually dress up and get paid equivalent to that. So that was my introduction into the Hollywood industry.

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My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

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I really embrace the person and the life that I came from because that made me who I am today.

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In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

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The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

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The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

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It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.

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It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

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