America Ferrera Quotes
Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
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Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
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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.
