"I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen."

"I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on."

"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room."

"You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination."

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."

"Patience is a virtue because every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."