Vanessa Ferlito quote: "The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'"

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
VANESSA FERLITO

You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man...
VANESSA FERLITO

Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
VANESSA FERLITO

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
VANESSA FERLITO

I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
VANESSA FERLITO

I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
VANESSA FERLITO

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time...
VANESSA FERLITO

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
VANESSA FERLITO

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
VANESSA FERLITO

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene...
VANESSA FERLITO

You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don...
VANESSA FERLITO

I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
VANESSA FERLITO

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for...
VANESSA MAE

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
VANESSA HUDGENS

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come ...
VANESSA BAYER

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' wr...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be a...
VANESSA REDGRAVE

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that...
VANESSA REDGRAVE

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
VANESSA REDGRAVE

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
VANESSA REDGRAVE

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
VANESSA REDGRAVE

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
VANESSA REDGRAVE

I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th...
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the thi...
VANESSA RAY

Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
VANESSA RAY

I mostly want to be friends with my children.
VANESSA PARADIS

You fall for who the chemistry is with.
VANESSA PARADIS

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS

I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or ano...
VANESSA PARADIS

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
VANESSA PARADIS

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them th...
VANESSA PARADIS

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything...
VANESSA PARADIS

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
VANESSA PARADIS

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
VANESSA PARADIS

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
VANESSA PARADIS

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of b...
VANESSA PARADIS

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
VANESSA PARADIS

My daughter loves singing above all else.
VANESSA PARADIS

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
VANESSA PARADIS

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely ...
VANESSA PARADIS

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
VANESSA PARADIS

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
VANESSA PARADIS

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it...
VANESSA PARADIS

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in ...
VANESSA PARADIS

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbec...
VANESSA PARADIS

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting ...
VANESSA PARADIS

I liked to play dress-up.
VANESSA PARADIS

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.
VANESSA PARADIS

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story u...
VANESSA PARADIS

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
VANESSA PARADIS

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
VANESSA PARADIS

I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From th...
VANESSA MORGAN

My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN

I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but yo...
VANESSA MORGAN

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
VANESSA MINNILLO

I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It st...
VANESSA MINNILLO

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA MINNILLO

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q...
VANESSA MINNILLO

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling con...
VANESSA MINNILLO

The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've...
VANESSA MINNILLO

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life a...
VANESSA MINNILLO

Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a ...
VANESSA MINNILLO

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, Cal...
VANESSA MARCIL

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and ...
VANESSA MARCIL

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
VANESSA MARCIL

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
VANESSA MARCIL

Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while ...
VANESSA MARCIL

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
VANESSA MARCIL

I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll lik...
VANESSA MARCIL

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty...
VANESSA MARCIL

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when the...
VANESSA MARCIL

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is ...
VANESSA MAE

Music will always be my greatest passion.
VANESSA MAE

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
VANESSA MAE

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basicall...
VANESSA MAE

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but trainin...
VANESSA MAE

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest t...
VANESSA MAE

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
VANESSA MAE

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
VANESSA MAE

Music is about the performance.
VANESSA MAE

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
VANESSA MAE

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an...
VANESSA MAE

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m...
VANESSA MAE

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in eith...
VANESSA MAE

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to...
VANESSA MAE

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself ...
VANESSA MAE

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it...
VANESSA MAE

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat a...
VANESSA MAE

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
VANESSA MAE

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
VANESSA MAE

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
VANESSA MAE

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. Th...
VANESSA LENGIES

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a cha...
VANESSA LENGIES

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the characte...
VANESSA LENGIES

My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; i...
VANESSA LENGIES

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and...
VANESSA LENGIES

I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It st...
VANESSA LACHEY

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. Th...
VANESSA LACHEY

I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't s...
VANESSA LACHEY

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q...
VANESSA LACHEY

For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally ...
VANESSA LACHEY

What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is fa...
VANESSA LACHEY

We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsesse...
VANESSA LACHEY

My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY

Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or e...
VANESSA LACHEY

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA LACHEY

Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
VANESSA LACHEY

If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
VANESSA LACHEY

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, ...
VANESSA LACHEY

When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they&#...
VANESSA LACHEY

Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha...
VANESSA LACHEY

With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing ...
VANESSA LACHEY

It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a ...
VANESSA LACHEY

I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby B...
VANESSA LACHEY

The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free d...
VANESSA LACHEY

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that ...
VANESSA LACHEY

I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doe...
VANESSA LACHEY

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did ...
VANESSA KERRY

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our care...
VANESSA KERRY

I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly belie...
VANESSA KERRY

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
VANESSA KERRY

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what m...
VANESSA KERRY

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did k...
VANESSA KERRY

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things h...
VANESSA KERRY

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
VANESSA KERRY

And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to ma...
VANESSA KERRY

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It...
VANESSA KERRY

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leade...
VANESSA KERRY

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the...
VANESSA KERRY

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though...
VANESSA KERRY

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
VANESSA HUDGENS

I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
VANESSA HUDGENS

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
VANESSA HUDGENS

It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their...
VANESSA HUDGENS

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa...
VANESSA HUDGENS

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that...
VANESSA HUDGENS

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it&#...
VANESSA HUDGENS

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody do...
VANESSA HUDGENS

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
VANESSA HUDGENS

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
VANESSA HUDGENS

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
VANESSA HUDGENS

I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like havin...
VANESSA HUDGENS

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has...
VANESSA HUDGENS

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t...
VANESSA HUDGENS

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by do...
VANESSA HUDGENS

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
VANESSA HUDGENS

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
VANESSA HUDGENS

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
VANESSA HUDGENS

I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go...
VANESSA FERRARI

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest...
VANESSA FERRARI

The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
VANESSA FERRARI

At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted pe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the t...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every hars...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most p...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
VANESSA CARLTON

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
VANESSA CARLTON

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel...
VANESSA CARLTON

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
VANESSA CARLTON

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up...
VANESSA CARLTON

I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are...
VANESSA CARLTON

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
VANESSA CARLTON

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intima...
VANESSA CARLTON

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted t...
VANESSA CARLTON

The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

Vanessa Ferlito

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