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Edgar Ramirez Quotes

If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues – because we are what we think we are, but we’re also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There’s always a hidden face.

– Edgar Ramirez

I’ve never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

– Edgar Ramirez

I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of ‘Point Break’. I would say, ‘You know what? Whenever there’s a remake of ‘Point Break’, I’m going to do it.’

– Edgar Ramirez

I have a huge promotion: you’ve heard from me on ‘Vantage Point’ and also with ‘Cyrano Fernandez’ – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it’s based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it’s set in a Venezuelan slum. It’s a free version of the French play.

– Edgar Ramirez

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It’s a sport that’s more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

– Edgar Ramirez

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.

– Edgar Ramirez

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

– Edgar Ramirez

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

– Edgar Ramirez

For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven’t seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

– Edgar Ramirez

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

– Edgar Ramirez

Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can’t stop thinking about them. That’s violent. Hopefully, it’s for the better, but it’s a violent thing.

– Edgar Ramirez

I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’.

– Edgar Ramirez

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

– Edgar Ramirez

I think that the ‘Bourne Trilogy,’ it’s definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.

– Edgar Ramirez

My father was a military attache, so I’ve been traveling all my life.

– Edgar Ramirez

I’m just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of ‘Point Break’.

– Edgar Ramirez

One of the pillars of ‘Cyrano’ is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.

– Edgar Ramirez

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

– Edgar Ramirez

I’m acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I’ve thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

– Edgar Ramirez

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don’t have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

– Edgar Ramirez

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

– Edgar Ramirez

War is a tragedy. It’s not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody’s a victim, from the one who’s suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

– Edgar Ramirez

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