The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

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

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

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.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

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.