"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer."

“I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.46, Broadway Books

“A fool and his money are soon married.”

“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“For an actress who really hasn’t gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage,”

“When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'”

“No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.”

“Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.”

Source : "Sven's samurai". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2002.

“I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.”