I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

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.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.