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" Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time. "

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" Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing. "

" My first TV experience, it was so bad. I just didn't feel a creative atmosphere. I felt like we were just pawns to deliver lines. Everyone was telling me that's just television. I said, 'OK, I'm going to stay far away from television! "

" As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. "

" I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?' "

" Hollywood's racist. "

" Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing. "

" I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch. "

" It's disgusting how much I laugh during the day. "

" You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great. "

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" We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now. "

" It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation. "

" I used to get recognized quite often as being a 'Soul Train' dancer. Quite often, which was great at times but sometimes was not so great. Especially, back at college, it was not so great. It was pretty tough. "

" I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft. "

" I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. "

" I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me. "

" A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak. "

" If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever. "

" Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself. "

" Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved. "

" People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else. "

" I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. "

" In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it. "

" I get bored in Hollywood. "

" I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn. "