America Ferrera Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I am trying to be guided by my passion.”

“I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.”

“At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.”

“To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.”

“I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.”

“What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.”

“My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.”

“Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.”

“I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.”

“There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.”