People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

You don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Time is a very shadow that passeth away.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!

Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.