I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I am hoping for a long career.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I have a hyper personality.

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.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I like to look strong and commanding.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

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.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

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.