Richard Cabral

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

I really embrace the person and the life that I came from because that made me who I am today.

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

I'm definitely not joking around on set.

Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of art.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

I can't point my finger on a 'dream role,' but the days that I'm able to fulfill the stories of the 'hood/barrio on film, those will be great days.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.