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I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

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.

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

I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.