“My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you’re doing.”

“The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.”

“It’s not always so great to be objectified but I don’t feel I have much of a choice right now. I’m young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot. I look forward to the day when I can do a small movie and act and it’s not about me wearing a bathing suit or chaps.”

“There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior.”

“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.”

“I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.”

“I’m good at being sarcastic with guys. They don’t want the quiet, prissy little things.”

“Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.”

“way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don’t need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.”

“My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, … So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don’t speak Spanish. So, to say that I’m a Latin actress, OK, but it’s not fitting; it would be insincere.”

“When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don’t do that again.’ But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.”

“Something that doesn’t show sweat. Something that is no fuss; something that isn’t see-through. Those are my standards.”

“I do not like being in my bathing suit. Especially in front of strangers, especially in front of cameras. I can’t say that I would ever do a movie in a bikini again,”

“not smart animals, which is why people do get bit once in a while. I was wearing a wet suit that was silver. So when I move around, it believed my head was a fish. So this shark with his mouth open was coming towards my head. I pushed it away because I freaked out. And the director later told me that that was happening to my double all day. He was like, ‘I wasn’t sure if it was going to happen to you.’ I’m like, ‘Thanks for the heads up!’ ”

“I don’t want to comment on Tom’s relationship with Katie, but I’m a private person and I don’t feel you should talk about your private life. I think it’s best to keep this sort of thing to yourself.”

“Paul loves the water. It seems like that’s where he’s the most happy.”

“It’s not like a real X-Games sport yet; it’s kind of on the brink of becoming one, I think. And I don’t want to talk about it, because I want to come out with the game and show people what it’s all about.”

“Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, … That’s about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time.”

“Playboy has violated my personal rights and blatantly misled the public, who might think I had given them permission to put me on their cover when I didn’t. I’m simply protecting my personal rights and I hope that they will think twice before they try to do this to someone else.”