I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

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.