When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running