I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

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.

the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.