Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

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.

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.