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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Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
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When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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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.
