It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

Fear is nothing but a thought. So try not to become its victim. You were born to be the captain of your own thoughts.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

We are nothing but by the law.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

It's fun to challenge yourself and take advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves.

My longest love affair: with a book.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.