I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way ….

You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the….

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock,….

Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished..

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they thi….

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian w….

I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that….

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when y….

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quin….

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went..

Personally, I hate waiking the red carpet. You are expected to conform to every single expectation. People will say, "Try as hard as you can not to s….

Having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin..

I am trying to be guided by my passion..

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that th….

Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was….

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend..

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl..

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and k….

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English..

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanis….