Top 38 Quotes by Esai Morales

I remember doing 'La Bamba' and thinking, 'Do you really think that Latinos will be accepted in mainstream?' and I said, 'Someday I hope so, but there is no guarantee.'

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.

I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.