I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

I don't see music as working.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.