I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

I think people want to feel stuff right now.

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

The best gift that you can give to your favourite person is to lead him or her to God.

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

I was given a chance and I took it.