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

I was an illegal immigrant.

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

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.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

I don’t have stamina in exercise...but I have it in life.

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.