Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.