A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
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.
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
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.
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.
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
It was like a progression of things. I did one thing. People saw me. Then I'd do another thing. I got more recognized.
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
Thank God for the theater.
The whole point of the Hunger Project is to generate the popular and political will through education to achieve that goal.
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.
There's a lot of stuff just out there for exploitation, especially now with the video market. People will rent anything.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
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.
You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
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.
In 1992, Raul was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for: The Addams Family (1991). He shared the nomination with Anjelica Huston.
In 1983, Raul was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for: Tempest (1982).
In 1989, Raul was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Moon Over Parador (1988).
In 1995, Raul won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for: The Burning Season (1994).
In 1995, Raul was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for: Street Fighter (1994).
Raul was directed by fellow Shakespearean actor and friend, Richard Jordan in Macbeth at the Public Theater in New York.
Raul was nominated for four Best Actor (Musical) Tony Awards: in 1972, for playing "Valentine" in Two Gentlemen of Verona, in 1975 for a revival of Where's Charley?, in 1977, for playing Macheath in a revival of The Threepenny Opera, and in 1982 for Nine. Unfortunately, he never won.
Raul earned a B.A. in drama from University of Puerto Rico.
Raul's film debut was in 1971's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Raul was a member of the Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity in Puerto Rico.
Raul was the Godfather of writer Mylo Carbia.
After Raul's death in New York, his resting body was transported to Puerto Rico where two honoring ceremonies were held at Colegio San Ignacio High School and at the Headquarters of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture prior to his burial.
Raul graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active in student dramatics.
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