As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

Hamlet got a gun now.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.