Cristina Saralegui Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.”

“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”

“If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.”

“In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.”

“Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.”

“My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.”

“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”

“The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.”

“I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

“You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.”