Erik Estrada quotes:

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

I'm a deputy sheriff.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

I never rode a motorcycle before 'CHiPs.'

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

I never rode a motorcycle before CHiPs.