Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.