What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.