I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I have a hyper personality.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

But everyone has a chance. Every big guy started off small.

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because it was so hands-on and physical in a way that I really liked.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.