Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in theTwilight Zone?

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality, and he would kill him.

I've always been passionate about fashion.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.