If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better.

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

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.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.