Richard Cabral Quotes

Art saved my life.
As an actor, I draw from myself.
Audiences are more drawn in to what they can relate to, so it would be stupid not to have great Latino films for the Latino audience.
Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.
Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.
I believe God talks to us in mysterious ways. I knew if I did not pay attention to His message, I was going to do life in prison, or I was going to end up dead.
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.
I didn't grow up with any brothers, but I have my cousins, and I had my good friends, so I know what it is to have that bro relationship.
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.
I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.
I never became an actor for people to want to take pictures with me or wanting my autograph. I feel I am nothing more special than the next living soul, but I understand that I work in entertainment, and this attraction comes with the territory.
I really embrace the person and the life that I came from because that made me who I am today.
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.
I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.
I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.
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.
If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's what happened to me and what's still happening to hundreds of thousands of other individuals.
If you grow up on the good side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. If you grow up on the bad side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. It's not rocket science.
I'm definitely not joking around on set.
In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.
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Richard Cabral
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28 August, 1984
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