If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

You can shuffle my deck any day!

It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

Nice to see you, to see you nice

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

Just be yourself, the minute you start being yourself youre gonna win.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.