So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

I have always been an active part of my community.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

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.