America Ferrera Quotes - Page 2

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• How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.

  America Ferrera

  Love You, Taken, Thinking

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• I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

  America Ferrera

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were starting to change. We screened the film all over the world - in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities - and people across the board said, "That's my family."

  America Ferrera

  Attitude, Real, Struggle

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• Personally, I hate waiking the red carpet. You are expected to conform to every single expectation. People will say, "Try as hard as you can not to sweat on the red carpet." Meanwhile you are super nervous, and there are tons of camera flashes, and people are screaming your name. It's not fun - not for me, at least!

  America Ferrera

  Fun, Hate, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me. I do feel like if I wanted to get in better shape, there might be a backlash of, Why isn't she comfortable with herself anymore? So I try to figure out what my own goals are.

  America Ferrera

  People, Goal, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

  America Ferrera

  Sleep

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Paparazzi will sit outside my house to see where I'm going, and when they see it's the studio, they'll be like, "This is boring," and drive off. But you'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

  America Ferrera

  Dancing, House, Desire

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. One day he said to me, 'I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different.

  America Ferrera

  Crush, I Like You, Boys

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• I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.

  America Ferrera

  Girl, Mean, Kids

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• You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.

  America Ferrera

  Mom, Stars, Fun

  "Miss America!". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. December 23, 2006.

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• I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Curves, Lucky

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• What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Real, Curves

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• I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

  America Ferrera

  Men, Feel Good, Watches

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• I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

  America Ferrera

  Hate, Red, Fame

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• Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it.

  America Ferrera

  Running, Real, Curves

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

  America Ferrera

  People, Worry, Weight

  "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.

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• I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

  America Ferrera

  Dancing, Singing, Chicago

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• I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

  America Ferrera

  Musical, Chicago, Saws

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• Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

  America Ferrera

  Effort, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

  America Ferrera

  Patriotic, Names, America

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

  America Ferrera

  Children, Smiley, Gregarious

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

  America Ferrera

  Please Me, Voice, Tuning

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

  America Ferrera

  Voice, Littles, Way

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