Top 65 Ferrera Quotes
#1. America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.
Mark Indelicato
#2. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
America Ferrera
#3. 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
#4. I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.
America Ferrera
#5. 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
#6. I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
America Ferrera
#8. 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
#9. I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.
America Ferrera
#10. Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
America Ferrera
#11. There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.
America Ferrera
#12. When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.
America Ferrera
#13. I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.
America Ferrera
#14. 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
#15. What's hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn't feel like enough. But it is.
America Ferrera
#17. Once again I'm left wondering how he does things to my body without even touching it. Heaven help me if he actually does.
Mila Ferrera
#18. They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!
America Ferrera
#19. The only way I'll end up disappointed is if I can't make you come in my arms
Mila Ferrera
#20. Would you stay and be next to me, just because I need you close?"
He looks down at my fingers twining with his ... "There's no way I could say no.
Mila Ferrera
#21. With you, it means everything, because you hold my heart in your hands.
Mila Ferrera
#22. Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
America Ferrera
#23. His head lowers so he's looking in my eyes. I'm completely in love with you.
Mila Ferrera
#24. 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
#25. There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.
America Ferrera
#26. I feel more for you than ever have for anyone, and anything we do together isn't me using you!" He squeezes his eyes shut and sets his forehead on mine. "It's me giving myself to you.
Mila Ferrera
#27. 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
#29. I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.
America Ferrera
#30. What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
America Ferrera
#31. I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
America Ferrera
#32. I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!
America Ferrera
#33. My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
America Ferrera
#35. I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.
America Ferrera
#36. Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
America Ferrera
#37. I missed talking to you, and playing with you, and touching you, and seeing you smile. I missed just ... sitting next to you. I've never missed anyone or anything that much
Mila Ferrera
#38. 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
#39. You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
America Ferrera
#40. Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.
America Ferrera
#41. I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
America Ferrera
#42. It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
America Ferrera
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished.
America Ferrera
#47. I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
America Ferrera
#48. I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No ... ' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.
America Ferrera
#49. And when you love someone like I loved your father, you're willing to walk through hell with that person because they're worth it.
Mila Ferrera
#50. I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before ... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.
America Ferrera
#51. 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
#52. I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.
America Ferrera
#53. Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
America Ferrera
#54. To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
America Ferrera
#55. I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.
America Ferrera
#56. I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.
America Ferrera
#57. It's not like it was before, because Aron changed the shape of my heart.
Mila Ferrera
#58. I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.
America Ferrera
#59. It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside ... who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.
America Ferrera
#61. If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
America Ferrera
#62. 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
#63. I'm scared of a lot of things. That's no reason to try.
Mila Ferrera
#64. 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 so many hours.
America Ferrera
#65. As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
America Ferrera
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