I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature.

I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.