The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

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.

I've never met anybody who enjoys every moment of making a movie as much as Pierce Brosnan. He doesn't stress out too much, he is always in a good mood. And he has little rituals throughout the day, which he does with a lot of style - almost like he is celebrating life, not just the work. He has to have his special cup of tea, in nice china, not Styrofoam.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

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.

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.