Danny Trejo

thumb|Danny Trejo in 2009 Daniel "Danny" Trejo (16 May 1944) is an American actor and voice actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as a villain or an antihero. Quotes Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything. "Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car" (August 7, 2019) Standing on the yard in San Quentin, knowing that there's a riot coming, you're absolutely scared to death with every fiber of your body…[But] you have to pretend you're not. You have to stand there and make everybody think you like it. On how serving time in prison prepared him for acting in “Danny Trejo On Acting, Addiction And Playing 'The Mean Chicano Dude'” in NPR (March 14, 2018) I made a deal with God. I said, ‘Let me die with dignity. If you do, I’ll say your name every day and I’ll do whatever I can for my fellow man.’ I didn’t want to go to the gas chamber, screaming and yelling and peeing myself. On renouncing a life of crime in “Danny Trejo: the hardest man in Hollywood” in The Guardian (October 29, 2018) People say, ‘You always play the mean Chicano dude with tattoos.’ Well, I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos…So they got it right. They’re not going to cast Marky Wahlberg as the mean Mexican guy. On being typecasted in “Danny Trejo: the hardest man in Hollywood” in The Guardian (October 29, 2018) External links Category:Actors from California Category:Comedians from the United States Category:Boxers from the United States Category:Prisoners Category:1944 births Category:Living people