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

If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have.

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

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

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.