On how she reacts to tension around her:
“I can’t handle business confrontation, but I can completely confront someone who’s disrespecting me personally. … Jesse [her bodyguard] calls me a true Latina woman. I can go off for sure.”

On being the first Latina to lead a Disney TV series:
“Growing up, [teen idols] were all blond, with light-colored eyes. I wanted to be that.”I didn’t realize how important it was to represent my background and my culture until parents of Latin descent started coming up to me. Then it clicked. I can represent a different generation and a different culture.”

On her relationship with Bieber:
“I’m glad I can say that there are things you don’t know about us.”

On Bieber renting out LA’s Staples Center for a private screening of Titanic:
“If I’ll share anything with you, it’s that he really is a hopeless romantic. I had just mentioned it in the car - all I said is that I really want to see Titanic again, and then.”

On growing up poor:
“I can remember about seven times when our car got stuck on the highway because we’d run out of gas money.” Still her mother, “saved up to take me to concerts. She took me to museums, aquariums, to teach me about the world, about what’s real.”

On Disney:
“Disney is a machine, so people automatically assume that you can’t work for the channel unless you act and sing and dance and sign up for all that. That’s absolutely not true. I always did everything the way I wanted to do it.”

On her movie offers:
“I get offered the teenybopper movies, and I’ve done that. I haven’t done a mega-hundred-billion-dollar Transformers movie, but that’s not what I want to do either.”

On seeing Jennifer Lopez in Selena at age five:
“I made a bustier out of a bathing suit that I dyed black. I put glue and glitter all over it and I wouldn’t take it off.”