You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

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.

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

To lose is not always failure.

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.