There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I have a hyper personality.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

Doing what you want to do is life.