I get bored in Hollywood.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.