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  • We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.

  • In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

  • I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.

  • I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

  • I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

  • I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

  • I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.

  • When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

  • Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

  • I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

  • Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

  • I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.

  • To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

  • I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.

  • Everybody needs a chance to find love.

  • Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

  • I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.

  • I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

  • I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

  • I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

  • I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

  • I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

  • I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

  • I am treated no different than the other girls.

  • I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

  • You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.

  • But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

  • I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.

  • I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

  • On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

  • She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda plans to be president of the United States, and she's going to need the website for her campaign.

  • Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

  • I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food. That's pretty much my weakness...and barbecue beef...and Texas beef...and brisket. Any red meat I can get my hands on.

  • I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

  • The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers -- she needed a tax break,

  • I'm not a fan of capris. They actually shorten my legs.

  • My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

  • I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

  • I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.

  • I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

  • In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  • I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  • So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

  • I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

  • I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

  • I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

  • I think sometimes women are stuck in a type. I've never dated the same type. I fall in love with personalities, and they come in different packages.

  • The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're beautiful in our essence.

  • When I want to reward myself I get a relaxing massage.

  • I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!

  • My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

  • I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want and being reckless, but I like being in a relationship. When you have somebody who grounds you and keeps you sane, it helps.

  • I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

  • I'm a tomboy. I love shooting guns and running around.

  • I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

  • My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

  • We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

  • I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.

  • I'm super careful with my skin and make sure to protect it. I always sit under an umbrella. And I'm a sunblock bully. If you're on the beach with me, I will spray you down with SPF 50-plus.

  • You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

  • I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

  • I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

  • I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

  • Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

  • The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

  • I think what I love most about Oprah's brand that I would love to do with the Eva Longoria brand is she has purpose with her brand. Everything she does means something.

  • I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.

  • It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

  • The best sex I have ever had was with my vibrator.

  • I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

  • I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

  • Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

  • I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

  • People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

  • I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!

  • I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

  • Get a Brazilian wax. It makes sex better, orgasmwise.

  • I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

  • I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.

  • I'm really a very fifties housewife.

  • I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

  • Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back!

  • I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  • I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.

  • As a woman, you feel like you can change the person, but I don't think that's the way it works.

  • I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

  • Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

  • I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

  • I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

  • Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it,

  • I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

  • I was a tomboy and any time anyone says something about me being hot, it makes me giggle.

  • That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

  • I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.

  • When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.

  • So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.

  • It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  • I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.

  • Hold on to the love, not the loss.

  • I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous, even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.

  • You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

  • When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

  • So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

  • Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

  • When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying ...

  • ... it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

  • You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?

  • Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.

  • I don't think relationships are all about sex, but it's definitely about passion and that feeling of "I want you now." I love that romantic side of it.

  • My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

  • The work part of a relationship is keeping it where you want it.

  • There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

  • You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

  • I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

  • I love to be pursued. I think that when you're not a challenge, it's just nnot as fun for the guy.

  • A marriage is a partnership.

  • I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

  • I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

  • Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

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