Raul Julia
Raul Julia
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelaywas a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing locally for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He took over in the role of Orson...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 March 1940
CitySan Juan, PR
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.
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.
Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
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.
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.
I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
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.