[Rhimes and Pete Nowalk] have definitely, from the pilot [of How to Get Away with Murder], brought forth a woman who is unapologetically herself, unapologetically flawed, and is as vulnerable as she is powerful. I'm grateful to be in that family.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.