Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind of internal power from your work.

Education is the ticket to success

An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.

I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.

The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.