
Miguel: You know, hitchhiking, whenever they would pick me up, they’d always ask me my name and what I do for a living. Of course, I couldn’t tell them I was like this escaped convict, so I’d always make shit up. It became like a game, you know? Oil rigger. Cattle rancher. I had this one dumb fuck convinced I wrote La Vida Loca, man. They believed me. They wanted to believe. I wanted to believe, you know? You know, I could be somebody else, just anybody other than Miguel Alvarez.
Ryan: Well, bro, bad news. You’re stuck with who you are.
-Oz, deleted scene; season 4. Harsh truths with Ryan O’Reily.