America Ferrera Quotes

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

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It’s gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you’ve got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it’s an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.

I don’t think running for office is anything I’m prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there’s just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there’s people who don’t look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We’re not all a size 2 and we’re not all a size 0, and you know what? That’s OK, because some of us like to eat!

You’d never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. One day he said to me, ‘I like your best friend more because she’s paler and she has freckles.’ And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I’m different.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.