I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

I would love to do a musical. When I did 'Fame L.A.' for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform - every member of my court does - and every legislative session, reform measures are filed... and then they fail.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Statistics real contribution to society is primarily moral, not technical.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.