And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

- Cheech Marin

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

- Cheech Marin

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

- Carlos Santana

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

- Brenda Song

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

- Billy Connolly

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

- Becky G

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

- Aaron Sanchez

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

- Aaron Sanchez

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

- Anthony Quinn

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

- Anthony Quinn

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

- Alfonso Cuaron

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

- Alex Cox

Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.

- Adrian Grenier

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.

- Alicia Machado

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

- Ann Coulter

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu