Quotes by Colombian authors

"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk"

"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention"

"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time"

"I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most"

"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid"

"He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating"

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

"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 never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women"

"When you have a kid, you have to be more mature"

"I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him"

"My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts"

"I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it"

"L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak"

"I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time"

"Not everybody's confident their whole life"

"When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa"

"It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning"

"If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old"

"If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked"

"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood"

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing"

"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world"

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale"

"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband"

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability"

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good"

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry"

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can"