My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

Wash your face before bed every night. Your skin will thank you - and your pillow too!

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

Oooo wee! You see that chump go flying? Look’eah, nothing like charred demon to make a brotha feel right. - Calvin Freeman (Sineaters‬:Devotion Book One)

Don’t do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something

The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.