I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.