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I Struggled With Being A Latino Growing Up In Los Angeles. I Felt Very American. I Still Do. I Went To 35 Bar Mitzvahs Before I Went To A Single Quinceanera. I Could Talk All Day About My Culture And What It Means To Me.

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'.

The First Time I Landed In New York And Got A Cab To My Hotel, I Was Completely Struck By It: A Feeling Of Life And Chaos, 24 Hours Around The Clock, Just Like In London. And Whatever Your Problem Is, It's Insignificant. You're Just A Small Part Of Something Very Big.

Kids Not Only Understand [a Dark Story] But Appreciate It … Because In The Real World There's Fear, And Dark Things Happen No Matter How Young You Are. People Lose Parents, People Lose Friends … There's Darkness In The World. So I Think When Kids Are Talked To In That Way, They Appreciate It. They're Not Being Given Some Candy-coated, 'oh, This Is A World Where There Are No Stakes.' I Think That Actually Insults Their Intelligence.

Relationships Take Time And Energy, And Your Job Kind Of Sucks That All Out Of You. It Takes An Extra Effort To Stay Present In A Relationship When You Are Working Kind Of Hours.