I don’t have stamina in exercise...but I have it in life.
I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.
I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too - you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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.
I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
I was an illegal immigrant.
I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.
You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.
I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
