I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about yourmistakes, learn from them.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.

There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.