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.

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.'

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.

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 have always been an active part of my community.

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 have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

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.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

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.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

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

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

Love food and I love to eat.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

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.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

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 think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

We all owe death a life.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Faith without doubt is addiction

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.