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.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

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.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

I'm a royal pain in the behind.