I remember my first thing was 'CSI: Miami.' I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, 'Wow, I don't have to clean toilets.' I could actually dress up and get paid equivalent to that. So that was my introduction into the Hollywood industry.
More Quotes by Richard Cabral
No one cares about you when you're in jail.
Art saved my life.
I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.
I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.
The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.
My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.