Raul Julia

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and…

— Raul Julia

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore.…

— Raul Julia

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

— Raul Julia

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

— Raul Julia

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into…

— Raul Julia

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is…

— Raul Julia

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts.…

— Raul Julia

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as…

— Raul Julia

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

— Raul Julia

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so…

— Raul Julia

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table…

— Raul Julia

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

— Raul Julia

Thank God for the theater.

— Raul Julia

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

— Raul Julia

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

— Raul Julia

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

— Raul Julia

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

— Raul Julia