I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I have a hyper personality.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

The past embraces the futureThe future embraces the pastThey are both intertwinedLinked in all eternity

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.