I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie…

- Diane Guerrero

I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so sc…

- Diane Guerrero

Since I went public with my story, I've never experienced such hate. I sometimes want to crawl under my blanket and hide forever and say, "No, that's…

- Diane Guerrero

My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with jobs or rejection…

- Diane Guerrero

I spent a long time in the shadows. I always had this feeling that I was the only one going through stuff, because I kept it a secret. Once I decided…

- Diane Guerrero

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.

- Diane Guerrero

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's not true. My fathe…

- Diane Guerrero

After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories you had as a kid, but you'r…

- Diane Guerrero

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

- Diane Guerrero