Michael Pena Quotations

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

I think that when you're doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there's a certain... like you can reject it, and it's okay. It's not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that's when you get into hot water.

There is always pressure in any movie set. If you think about it, there is something that you memorize and it is almost like public speaking every day, all day. There is a crew of people, there are monitors and if you mess up, you have to do it until you get it right and then sometimes, you would go blank.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.