It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

The work part of a relationship is keeping it where you want it.

I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!

I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.

Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.