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.

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.

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.

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

Passion is not what gives you bliss or makes you happy 24/7, but what you're willing to suffer for, what you genuinely believe to be worth the sacrifice.

In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.