If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.

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.

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives.