I am trying to be guided by my passion.

I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.