I was an illegal immigrant.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.