Juan Pablo Quotes & Sayings

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I arrived in Los Angeles on the Monday, had a call from my agent to say they wanted to see me for 'Dallas,' made an audition tape at my friend's house in L.A. the same day, and had the job the following Monday. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I get this a lot: 'Oh, can you take a picture with my baby? Can you hold the baby?' I don't want to hold your baby! I'll hold my baby. I don't like holding someone else's baby. I'm serious! You never know what could happen. It's such an awkward position you're put in, and it's like, 'No, sorry.' — Juan Pablo Montoya

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop. — Juan Pablo Montoya

Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it's almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in 'A.D. The Bible Continues,' it's drama, it's real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like 'House of Cards.' — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time. — Juan Pablo Montoya

The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

'Mamma Mia' and 'Dallas' have proved to me that the things you dream about can happen. I don't ask myself, 'How did I get here?' but instead, 'I deserve to be here. I was right to think this would happen.' I'm a firm believer in the power we have in our minds to want something and pursue it in a sane and focused way. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I think it's good for sports cars to be united, to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series, fans don't know which way to go, when you only have one I think it's good for the sport. — Juan Pablo Montoya

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I'd rather have a hot dog than caviar. — Juan Pablo Montoya

Hair is like a corpse you wear on your head while you're alive. — Juan Pablo Villalobos

I would never disrespect anyone. — Juan Pablo Galavis

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.' — Juan Pablo Galavis

If you're not a king you can wear a hat to be distinguished. And if you're not a king and you don't wear a hat you end up being a nobody. — Juan Pablo Villalobos

I can be a little bit stubborn. — Juan Pablo Galavis

In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I love the American way of life. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I would want to know if, at 15, if my daughter loves me the way she does right now. And if she's proud of me, just because I want to be a good example for her, and seeing her grow and how much she loves Daddy saying 'Daddy, te quiero mucho,' which means 'I like you a lot,' those are the things that melt my heart. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I can be sarcastic. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates. — Juan Pablo Montoya

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I went to church every Sunday ... I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that ... for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I don't like Miami that much. I don't like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself. — Juan Pablo Galavis

There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others. — Juan Pablo Galavis

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

We were created to be woman and man and make kids. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Just take each race as it comes and have fun. — Juan Pablo Montoya

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them. — Juan Pablo Galavis

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem. — Juan Pablo Montoya

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that. — Juan Pablo Montoya

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I'm like the black sheep of my family. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her. — Juan Pablo Galavis

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families. — Juan Pablo Galavis

When you plan something, it never works. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I respect every gay man and woman. They're that way, and they just want to be happy. — Juan Pablo Galavis

After 2012, there's been a shift in humanity, society and economics. We're witnessing a transition: everything is changing really fast - with that comes a wanting to see and believe, and faith and spirituality come into play. I think the world is now more spiritual than it ever was because people are searching for answers. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

It makes me really proud to be an Argentinean, to have the pope be Argentinian. Pope Francis has been incredible. My mother used to know him when he was in Argentina. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I'm very happy. I'm a happy guy; I'm always happy. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old. — Juan Pablo Montoya

I really like the really high banked tracks. — Juan Pablo Montoya

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should. — Juan Pablo Montoya

In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just work for names, it works for anything, food or people. — Juan Pablo Villalobos

Everyone thinks they know Jesus because they've got a personal relationship with him. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents? — Juan Pablo Galavis

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Religious or biblical can sometimes be a little soft, but 'A.D.' doesn't shy away from the violence of the time, the political intrigue. The story is really about the resurrection of faith, which is how the disciples went about keeping the word of Christ. So, they found all kinds of trouble and problems and torture and persecution. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning. — Juan Pablo Galavis

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.' — Juan Pablo Galavis

I struggled in London for a very long time. 'Be prepared to struggle a lot' - it's a European mentality. The American mentality is positive and 'You can do it' and 'Everything's possible.' In Europe it's an older, more realistic way of thinking. You feel like you're having to prove that you can do it. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I'm not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd always wanted, as it's such a well-constructed show, and my background is in musical theatre. I'd been travelling back and forth between London and Spain for auditions and had been borrowing money from friends to do it. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street ... I'm like, 'Really?' But obviously, I can't judge someone for that first impression. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I get fit taking my bike out in the woods. — Juan Pablo Montoya