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

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

" At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time. "

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

Believe In Yourself

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

" I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful. "

" I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. "

" I like the cold weather better than the hot weather. "

" 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'm a lucky gal. "

" I have great hair because I take a lot of vitamins. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. "

" I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it. "

" In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me. "

" In Broadway, we do love jazz hands. "

" I want to be in shape. "

" I have a picture of all of us going to a club with my friends from 'Soul Train.' All the girls just going out to a nightclub, and we're all dressed like we were dressed on 'Soul Train.' It was the most surreal experience for me because I walk into the club with them, and people started screaming. 'Oh my God! It's the 'Soul Train' dancers.' "

" You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you. "

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

" I get bored in Hollywood. "

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

" I had a ball on 'Soul Train.' "

" As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood's racist. "

" Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing. "

" You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie. "