I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

It was supposed to be an Asian girl, so when I read the script I said, 'How am I going convince John Singleton that what he needs is a crazy Latin woman?' But I did. I got lucky.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.