My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

The basics win fights.

I know that my look is more 'toothpaste model' as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.