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" Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away. "

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" There is a deep camaraderie of insecurity between us actors. You rehash choices you've made among those who are close to you and inevitably bang your head against the wall when you finally figure out the scene... a day after you shot it! "

Lela Loren

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Insecurity

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" I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it. "

" I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder. "

" I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable. "

" Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you. "

" Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways. "

" Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have. "

Lela Loren

Discipline

Creativity

" I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' "

" In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them. "

" If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story. "

" I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality. "

" I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery. "

" The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for. "

" I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like. "

Lela Loren

Growing Up

Growing

" Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters. "

" I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again. "

Lela Loren

Remember

Love

" I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class. "

" Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth. "

" Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart. "

" The power of sexual attraction is a real thing. "

" We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't. "

" My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line. "

" You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage. "

" To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward. "