Danny Trejo > Quotes

“The way I see it, if he ain't worth killing, he ain't worth fighting. And if he ain't worth fighting, then he ain't worth getting upset about. And since you're not upset, grab me a Dr Pepper from the icebox.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Happiness - Signed / Autographed Copy

“If you’re going to pray, why worry? And if you’re going to worry, why pray?”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Have a good day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

“Donde hay vida, hay esperanza. Where there’s life, there’s hope, just like my grandmother used to say.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

“Drinking and drugs might temporarily bring some relief, but there is no problem in life that drugs and alcohol don't make worse--whether the issue is financial, emotional, or legal. If you are reading this and find yourself struggling, ask God to take the burden off your shoulders, reach out for help, and stop digging a deeper hole for yourself. There is a community of millions of men and women who have been in similar circumstances and will be there for you, stranger or not, because their own recovery depends on helping people like you.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Movies teach us valuable life lessons. They teach us if we reach deep enough inside ourselves, we can overcome whatever problems we’re dealing with, regardless of the odds.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

“If I’ve learned anything in life it’s to tell the people you love that you love them every day. Especially your children. Kids just want to know that they are loved.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

“Faith shoves fear out of the room.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“everything good that’s ever happened in my life has come as the direct result of helping someone else and not expecting anything in return. We”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Turns out, when you’re an addict, there’s no such thing as experimental drinking. For someone like me, one is too many and a thousand is never enough.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Have a nice day. That is, of course, unless you’ve already gone ahead and made other plans.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“I have living problems--I have obligations to the government, to my children, to my community. Life isn't worth living if you don't have some problems, But in truth, drugs and alcohol are really the only problems I have. If I touch either one of those, my life goes to hell and I can't take care of my obligations.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“It had been years since I’d been in a gang, but it was the one lesson Gilbert had failed to teach me. We were not invincible. So many of my old homies were dead, casualties of the life.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Donde hay vida, hay esperanza.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Bam. When it hit me, the boogeyman was gone. The boogeyman was that feeling of regret about the past and fear about the future.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“What I learned about Hollywood is that if I helped someone with a problem, they either became my best friend or they grew distant”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“If you're going to pray, why worry? And if you're going to worry, why pray?”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“you’re going to pray, why worry? And if you’re going to worry, why pray?” I prayed and prayed. I prayed”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“My dad and I were two of the angriest, most pent-up, rage-filled motherfuckers ever to dip cookies in glasses of milk.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“After first admitting I had a problem with drugs and alcohol, something that was easy for me to do, the second step was believing there was something in the universe more powerful than me.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“...there's no psychiatrist in the world who can help a man unless he deals with his drug problem first.' (Dr. Berkman, San Quentin prison)”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“They say in recovery, “Sometimes you can see the change in others better than you can see it in yourself.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“No matter what he was doing, Gilbert always had time for me, and the gift of his time and attention was something I needed as much as water.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“Have a good day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.” Gilbert”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“The magic of forgiveness is so profound, and it starts with us forgiving ourselves. There were so many things in my life that I’d done because in the moment it felt like the only way to survive.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“somewhere down in my core I still carried a deep fear about being vulnerable and weak and being fucked over that immediately manifested itself in anger and control.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“A diagnosis is just that. The result of a scan or a blood test or whatever is not reality; reality is reality. If you are sick and you avoid going to the doctor, that’s not going to change what’s happening inside your body. I wasn’t”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“It turns out the counselor was the father of the guy Danny Levitoff wanted me to kick out of his apartment for using years earlier. It’s just a hunch, but maybe the guy was still angry that I had pushed his junkie kid out on the streets all those years back and took it out on my dad.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

“There are two kinds of people in the pen: predator and prey. You wake up and choose which one you’re going to be every day.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

“When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true.”
― Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood