I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

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.

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