Darkened Quotes

Well, when I first got sent the script to The Assignment (1997), I thought, `Why don`t they offer this to Andy Garcia?` And it turned out they did. I said, `Oh, OK`. I had a little bit of a question of `How the hell am I gonna be believable?` Or `Will it be that much of a question in the audience`s mind that I`m supposed to be Venezuelan?` So, we went with the brown contacts for Carlos and darkened my skin, worked with a good dialogue coach. And then when I heard Andy Garcia was playing an Irish cop in Sidney Lumet`s movie (Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)), I stopped worrying about it. But that`s one of the great things about being an actor. We get to play dress up. And that`s what this movie was for me. Wigs, beards, mustaches, dialogues. Intrigue. It was a tremendous amount of hard work, but fun work for me.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn`t have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It`s an interesting, subtle relationship.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.