It Takes A Lot Of Courage To

To Be Seen And To Be Respected For My Work And Acknowledged As A True American Latina... Means A Lot To Me.

I've Witnessed Racism All My Life. And Of Course There's Racism And Discrimination In Hollywood. You Go For A Part And They Say, 'oh, We Really Liked Her, She's Amazing, But We Wanted To Go With Something More Traditional'. As If I'm Not A Traditional American!

I Just Want To Be Part Of Great Stories That Are Told And For Them To Be Relevant.

If There's Anything That I've Always Said About Myself Is That To Me, It's Much More Important For Me To Get To Work With Filmmakers That I've Grown Up Loving And Admiring.

There Are A Lot Of Magazines That Are Still Sort Of... That Only Cater To A Certain Demographic And Only Put Certain People On Their Covers.