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.

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.

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.

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.