I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

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.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'