It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.