I don’t ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
I don’t see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we’ve been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
I believe that change keeps you young.
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.
Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don’t happen, I’d rather have nothing but know I didn’t settle for something I didn’t want!
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.
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, ‘You’re no good.’ But I said to myself, ‘You’ve got to keep it up.’
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
I have always been an active part of my community.
I’m saving my sick days for when I’m feeling better.
I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that’s what I love.
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.
I love being a wife and homemaker – because it’s my choice. My husband doesn’t expect me to do it. I don’t mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody – family entertainment that’s really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
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.
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.