I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

You don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.