Nina Tassler Quotes

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

Pitbull has always been great - he represents Latinos.

Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.

I'm full Hispanic.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.

I overdramatize.

Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!