This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

You don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to impart the life of the gospel without telling a person that he or she is dead.

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.