You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.