I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

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.

It was more than the war that changed me - Corin

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.