"One of my dreams came true when Julian [Schnabel] showed the movie [Before Night Falls] to Al Pacino and he called me at 3 a.m. Spanish time and told me he liked my performance. I told him, 'I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.'" "I'm in love with my English teacher. We have many of our lessons in bed." - his girlfriend, Cristina, is a translator in Spain, and is coaching her boyfriend. "I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night, basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after to see who won or who lost... The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principal meaning of any award."