Erik Estrada's Quotes

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

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

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

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

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

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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 culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.