Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.