Gloria Estefan Quotes

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.