My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.