I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.