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I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
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.
When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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.
I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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 has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.
I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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.
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'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.
It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days.
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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 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.
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.
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 think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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.
As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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.
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.
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day.
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 like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
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 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.