76 Quotes by Rosie Perez

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it