22 Quotes by Raul Julia

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

I would smoke a cigar once in a while, but mostly cigarettes. I was lucky. I just stopped smoking cigarettes and went back to cigars.

I was even offered some things that I didn't really feel were right for me for a lot of money, more money than I was making in the theater.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

You know that for the first time in history, we have the means, the knowledge, the agricultural know-how and the economic resources to end hunger.

Thank God for the theater.