Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
I love the anxiety the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive beautiful and imaginative.
I just want to be a part of great stories whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
I'm a kid from New York so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience wisdom and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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.
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them I get them.
I think as an American society when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
On the basis of being a woman by playing an alien I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
I want to be the best daughter sister friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
Music is a very big participant in everything I do from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
Fathers sons brothers men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname or she keeps hers.
Growing up my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
As an artist I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
It's insecure and it's immature.
I like to look strong and commanding.
Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin it has to do with money and their class.
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.
Look at me. I'm skinny I have a big nose no tits and no ass but in a room full of beautiful women I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy.
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.
I am hoping for a long career.
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
I want to have more sex travel more drink more wine and love life.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not it's inevitable.
I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French Italian and Portuguese.
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
I'm a very feminine person but I have this hard shell man and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
I find it really frustrating when people go "I want to be famous and glamorous like you.
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Trust me: Studios investors filmmakers they will shift because they just follow the money trail.
I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone 'What am I doing today? Oh I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
Basically there's not enough sex in movies that's it. I'm trying to say it people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural guns are not.
As a woman you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
I have a hyper personality.
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
I love women. I worship women. Don't want to be any other woman but myself.
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor with a studio with a director with an actor I think we have to fight.
It's ok to say 'this is what I want' and go after it.
I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion their point of view their ideas.
When I act a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.
I never really watched the TV series.
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have physically a person who is that you are always going to be a little off.