Danny Trejo

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.

Danny Trejo in 2009

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)