My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.