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Freddie Prinze, Jr. Quotes

A couple of years ago, right before I made ‘Down to You,’ there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn’t accomplishing anything, that the goals I’d set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I’m cool. I’m not trying to brag or say I’m the man or anything like that. I don’t lie or cheat, and I’m not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I think success shows a person’s true colors.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I don’t know if acting is genetic. Maybe it’s environmental.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I don’t really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I would have loved to have played Spider-Man.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I did ’24;’ it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn’t do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what’s around you. If you’re around people who are supportive and positive, that’s how you look at the world.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn’t stand being a ‘Jr.’ I wouldn’t want anybody else to go through that. If we’d had a boy, he wouldn’t have been another Freddie Prinze.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I really fight hard to make things film where they’re supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New York, then it has to be in New York.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I’ve heard, ‘May the Force be with you’ about as many times as, ‘Hey, how you doing?’

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I’ve had this idea of what a father should be, it’s exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I’m artistic and cool and I’m doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

It’s so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze ’em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from ‘Sesame Street.’

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I really don’t like hurting people; I like making people feel good.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I’ve been working on it to get really good.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It’s about finding someone that you can share things with.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Speaking Spanish isn’t a benefit in Hollywood.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don’t even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

High school’s like another planet.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.

The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We’ve been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.

– Freddie Prinze, Jr.