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.

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

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

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.