America Ferrera Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.”
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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“I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.”
-- America FerreraSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.”
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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.”
-- America FerreraSource : "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.
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“I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.”
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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“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!”
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“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 so many hours.”
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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“I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!”
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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“You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.”
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“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'.”
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“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.”
-- America FerreraSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished.”
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“It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.”
-- America FerreraSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.”
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“I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.”
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“I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.”
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“I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.”
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“I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.”
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“I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.”
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“As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.”
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“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.”
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“I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.”
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“I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.”
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“I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.”
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“The most important thing you wear is your personality.”
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“How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.”
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“I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie”
-- America FerreraSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“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.”
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“Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture”
-- America Ferrera
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