Gabriel Luna Quotes

United States, Actor
December 5, 1982

Gabriel Isaac Luna (born December 5, 1982) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider on the ABC action superhero series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Bravo on the El Rey Network drama series Matador, and Paco Contreras on the ABC crime drama series Wicked City. He has starred in the films Bernie (2011), Balls Out (2014), Freeheld (2015), Gravy (2015), and Transpecos (2016).

Also known as Stage Actor, Television Actor

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

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- Small
- Team
- Basketball
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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- Work
- Game
- Training

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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- Work
- Football
- Fitness
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

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- Life
- Important
- Sports
I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

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- College
- Years
- Actor
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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- Up
- Good
- Guy
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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- People
- Small
- Community
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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- Up
- She
- Mother

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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- School
- High
- Strong
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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- School
- High
- Pretty
I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

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- College
- Soccer
- Played
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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- School
- American
- High
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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- Up
- American
- Game
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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- Job
- Book
- Fun