Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.