Ellamara Rodriguez Quotes

My therapist played your interview in front of everyone I know. I was the only one who hadn't seen it. I had no idea what was going on and everyone stared at me the whole time. I had to watch that interview with my father standing over my shoulder. It was so embarrassing."
Brian crossed his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow. "My love for you is embarrassing?"
Miracle of miracles, I managed to keep a straight face. "There's such a thing as subtlety, Brian. You could benefit from a few lessons on the subject."
I'd been doing well, but when Brian's face fell into a pout I burst into laughter. "I loved it. ~ Kelly Oram

Even if you feel wronged, respond right. ~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love. ~ Michelle Rodriguez

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images. ~ Jose Rodriguez

Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me. ~ Denis Leary

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but ... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste! ~ Robert Rodriguez

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. ~ Jose Rodriguez

I want people to consider talent without a last name or a race attached to it. I knew it would be a long path but also worth the struggle. That's when I got my confidence and when I started to figure out what beauty is. ~ Genesis Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us. ~ Michelle Rodriguez

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am. ~ Jai Rodriguez

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use
high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject
there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical. ~ Richard Rodriguez

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil. ~ Richard Rodriguez

The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time. ~ Robert Rodriguez

Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you. ~ Raini Rodriguez

Most American Hispanics don't belong to one race, either. I keep telling kids that, when filling out forms, they should put "yes" to everything - yes, I am Chinese; yes, I am African; yes, I am white; yes, I am a Pacific Islander; yes, yes, yes - just to befuddle the bureaucrats who think we live separately from one another. ~ Richard Rodriguez

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama. ~ Michelle Rodriguez

Cry, child, for those without tears have a grief which never ends. ~ Luis J Rodriguez

Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African. ~ Richard Rodriguez

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me. ~ Jai Rodriguez

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I have 13 dependents. All of them have 140 IQ or better, except me. I'm under 100 IQ, and I support them all. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana. ~ Richard Rodriguez

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same. ~ Robert Rodriguez

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. ~ Robert Rodriguez

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man! ~ Michelle Rodriguez

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know. ~ Richard Rodriguez

All things just keep getting better. ~ Jai Rodriguez

A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone tapped, while federal agents followed him everywhere. Forced to go underground, he later entered the drug trade & eventually got good at it. However, he told my friend, soon after this nobody kept tabs on him--he wasn't followed or harassed. He later became the number one drug dealer in the area. As he said this, my friend noted a breaking in his voice; the pain, perhaps, of being pushed away from being a committed community activist. ~ Luis J Rodriguez

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything. ~ Alex Rodriguez

These new people were her people. So what that she'd only recently met these women. In their hearts they were all the same: women yearning for rich lives, someone to love & someone to love them in return, friends to laugh with, drink with & cry with. ~ Deborah Rodriguez

My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses. ~ Richard Rodriguez

I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted. ~ Gina Rodriguez

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives. ~ Jose Rodriguez

Life is the gift of being able to do something, so use it ~ Ean Rodriguez

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Staying healthy is about really listening to your mind and body. They will both let you know when you're doing things the right way for you. And when you're not. You just need to be honest with yourself and listen to what they're saying. ~ Adam Rodriguez

There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it. ~ Robert Rodriguez

You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez. ~ Jay Leno