Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.