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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

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Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

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I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.

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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

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I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things.

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In the madness, you have to find calm.

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What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

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I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Actress

Born: March 1st, 1983

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