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.

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

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.

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.

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.