I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

Though life has fated that we never cross paths again, don’t ever feel alone. For we are parallel …. and I will always be by your side.

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.