Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salma Hayek

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Salma Hayek

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Linda Ronstadt

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

Lee Trevino

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Joe Arpaio

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Gael Garcia Bernal

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

George Lopez

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Jake Peavy

This Mexican team, they're not running out slop. They've got proven major-league talent.