I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

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

Maybe the truth doesn’t exist if you look the other way.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

My family came from Ecuador.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.