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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don't look Latino enough.

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.

Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'