The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.
My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.
The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.
There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.
If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.
That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.
A lot of my material was based on my family.
To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.
