Gabriel Luna Quotes

#1. Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

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#2. I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

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#3. I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

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#4. My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

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#5. I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

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#6. While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

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#7. Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

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#8. We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

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#9. Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

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#10. The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

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#11. Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I'm either kicking ass or kicking balls. It's all part of the job. All of that is really fun for everyone. It plays like a comic book superhero.

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#12. In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.

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#13. I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

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#14. I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

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