Barrera: "I am a firm believer in manifesting things into existence."

Barrera: "I am this girl that wants to go somewhere else where there’s more opportunities, where I can start over, where people are not gonna judge me because they know me for my entire life and they know everything about me."

Barrera: "I just fell in love with the whole process of auditioning and bonding with theater people, they became my friends."

Barrera: "You’re not an island. You don’t have to go through life by yourself. And there are always going to be people that are cheering you on and wanting to help you out."

Barrera: "It’s important to not be so focused on one thing that you’re being blind to the people around you that love you and support you."

Barrera: "I have no control over what happens when a movie comes out or when a show comes out. The only thing I have control over is my experience and my feelings while making it and if I'm proud of it. I cannot let the stars not aligning, or whatever is happening with the world, take that away from me."

Barrera: "I was painfully shy."

Barrera: "I went to NYU thinking, 'I'm going to graduate, and then I'm going to book something on Broadway and live in New York for the rest of my life.' That was my life plan."

Barrera: "I have so many dreams. I feel like that’s how I live my life—in dreams."

Barrera: "The things I wanted to be doing, they wouldn’t have even let me in the room for. I was working constantly, but I was never doing anything that gave me the ‘value’ of becoming a name in Mexico. I needed to go somewhere where no one knew me, where I could start fresh. They’d just see me in a room, and I’d have to bring it.

Barrera: "We put walls up in life, it’s to protect ourselves from getting hurt."

Barrera: "I grew up going to see my classmates in theater perform, always wanting to be a part of that because it felt so cool, I would be a little fan in the hallways, watching middle schoolers and high schoolers that were in the show."

Barrera: "Life has better plans for you than you have for yourself."

Barrera: "I wasn’t thinking, 'One day I’ll win an Oscar,' I was just going to go, audition every day, and book something fast. I told myself I was moving and not coming back, that was my mindset."

Barrera: "I was scared that there was no place for me in the industry."