Danny Trejo Quotes

Donde hay vida, hay esperanza. Where there’s life, there’s hope, just like my grandmother used to say.

If you’re going to pray, why worry? And if you’re going to worry, why pray?

Have a good day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.

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.

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.

Faith shoves fear out of the room.

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.

If a child’s trapped under a car and his mother’s stuck in fear, the kid’s screwed; if she turns it to rage, she lifts that car.

Have a nice day. That is, of course, unless you’ve already gone ahead and made other plans.

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

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.

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.

I have always loved the history of Los Angeles and Twilight in the City of Angels nails it. --Danny Trejo, actor

From infancy on we develop the masks we wear to get by, pretending we’re not scared or hurt, that things are alright.

My dad and I were two of the angriest, most pent-up, rage-filled motherfuckers ever to dip cookies in glasses of milk.

Bam. When it hit me, the boogeyman was gone. The boogeyman was that feeling of regret about the past and fear about the future.

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

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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.

Have a good day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.” Gilbert

At the end of my running days, I didn’t know if I was pulling robberies to support my drug habit, or doing drugs to support my robbery habit.

When you live a lie, your soul lets you know. For me, an alcoholic and addict, it starts whispering, You need to take something to take the edge off this pain. That’s when I knew I had to get right. I didn’t salvage our relationship, but I vowed to be a more honorable person whether I was in one or not.

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.

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.

The only thing I can compare it to is when the baboons went crazy on Damien in the safari adventure park in The Omen,

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.

Donde hay vida, hay esperanza.

you’re going to pray, why worry? And if you’re going to worry, why pray?” I prayed and prayed. I prayed

prayed every day that God would help Debbie find someone better who would love her the way she deserved.

Dan, don’t take everything on your shoulders. The ocean, other people’s behavior, they do what they are going to do. Since you can’t control that, don’t be distressed about it.

Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again.

...I learned I didn't have to be a slave to my circumstances. I could look beyond the prison walls from within the prison walls by changing who I was. Letting go of drugs was getting a gorilla off my back. I could face any scenario without turning to chemicals to protect my soul. Taking it day by day, I didn't need to feel guilt and regret and anger for the past. I didn't need to fear the future. Those things were outside of me and I could just be.

...even in prison I could be free.

...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)

...usually you can't save people from themselves if they're hell-bent on fucking their lives up through egomaniacal behavior. Some people never appreciate what they have and are always focused on what they don't.

...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already.

...we all knew the rules: take your shoes off in the house, wipe down everything after you use it, pick up after yourself, and respect the space. That's the convict code.

When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true.

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.

Your job is to do what God wants you to do: be a provider for your family and be happy, joyous, and free. If you aren't joyous, happy, and free, you aren't doing Goď's work for you.

They say in recovery, “Sometimes you can see the change in others better than you can see it in yourself.

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.

I’d expected a Mexican drug lord to look like Danny Trejo or a Hispanic Don Corleone, anything but a Latin soap star. It was disappointing.

George whispered in my ear, “Ask them where’s Shakespeare now, motherfuckers!