If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

When I think of how many people in this world have it worse than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...... and I have to give thanks ...

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.