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I do have a delicate side.
Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!
It's nice having a heart and a pussy too!
Going to car racing school was phenomenal.
The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.
I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.
I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.
I've never really been about looking good - I'm just bad at that stuff.
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.
I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.
I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.
People don't like talking about it, but if you're Spanish, you feel a weight.
I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.
I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.
I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.
My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.
People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.
I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training.
I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.
Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.
I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.
I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.
I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.
My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.
The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.
I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.
I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.
I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless.
I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.
I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then.
The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.
I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.
Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.
I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.
Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.