Manny Montana Quotations

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.