I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

I always look forward to seeing a man who has more brains than me.