The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

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.

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.

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.

Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!