To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

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.

It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.