Gloria Estefan Quotes
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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My father was a lawyer.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I'm used to big roles and lots of words.
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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
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If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
