The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

Hope and faith underlie a promise, and love energizes men to realize it.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.