Gloria Calderon Kellett Quotes

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

I think people want to feel stuff right now.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.

You can't even smoke a cigarette on network television anymore. Not that everyone should be smoking cigarettes, but that's how crazy it's gotten. You can't even do things like that that are real-life things.

Advertisers have become scared of talking about certain issues because they don't want to upset an American family. I think it's a shame because there are things we want to talk to our kids about. So to be able to talk about LGBT issues on our shows. To be able to to talk about sex on our shows. Now if you're like, "I'm going to do an episode talking to kids about sex," on a network that's hard to do!

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.