I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

I'm a brilliant filmographer. Is that a word?

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.