Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it.

So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.

I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

I believe that education offers the fastest route to economic mobility. I grew up with a family of strong, accomplished, and educated women. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior. There was never a question that I'd go to college. In fact, I was the last person in my family to get a master's degree, so that tells you I'm actually the underachiever!

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?