“At the age of five I started asking – you know I really wanted to act – I was asking my parents, ‘Hey, I want to study this, I want to be this, I want to become an actress when I grow up.’”

“The worst thing you can do is linger on a failure without properly identifying it, or properly identifying how to keep moving forward.”

“I started at a very young age doing theater because my parents were very involved in the theatre circuit in Miami – especially in the Latino theater [community].”

“Sometimes you just have to acknowledge these little moments in life that are good."

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“How am I going to remember all these lines? Somehow I did it.”

"I know my priorities and my fundamentals as a human being and everything else just kind of falls into place.”

“I had a lot of energy growing up that needed direction, that needed funneling into something productive, and so theatre became a really interesting emotional activity for me.”