Rosario Dawson (Actor)

"For a long time it felt like I snuck in and someone was going to figure me out. It wasn't like I've wanted to be an actor my whole life. I didn't have any particular aspiration to be hugely famous or be in magazines all the time." - Dawson to Movieline's Hollywood Life, February/March 2005

"I’m very fortunate in that all I ever have to do is do research and travel and meet new people and explore different viewpoints. I’m constantly putting myself in other people’s shoes and constantly challenged to go past my own prejudices. I think it’s unfortunate that celebrity has been marred so much by just talking about who people are sleeping with and what lipstick they’re wearing. We have a very unique experience of the world, travelling the way we do and being exposed to other cultures." - Dawson to Empire magazine in 2003

Dawson on comparisons to Jennifer Lopez: "It's hard when I'm compared to someone whom I have a likeness to. You don't compare other actresses like that. There's going to be a time when I won't have to be put under someone else or replace someone else. I'm hoping, as our careers expand, people will see the difference and stop comparing us just because we're Puerto Rican, which is ridiculous." - quoted in Austin's Insite magazine, November 1999

On her Ferris wheel-set love scene with Ray Allen in "He Got Game": "Ray had Maalox on his breath. He had this motion sickness thing, and I'm doing the nasty to him. I'm like, 'This is beautiful.'" - Dawson quoted in Details magazine, October 1999

Rosario Dawson has described her ethnic background as Puerto Rican, Black, Cuban, Irish and Native American.