I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

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 world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

I want to become a very good writer.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

I've always wanted to go to Austria.

I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.