- Dorita Evita Perez: [on why she wants to go to America] I love Elvis Presley, I dig the rock and roll, I want to FUCK... John Wayne
- Dorita Evita Perez: When I dreamed about coming here. I never dreamed about juan, and when I met him I was free the way I thought the United States was free... inside of him free. After so many years... how could the gods have planned it this way.
- Carmela Perez: She's a good girl but she is an American. Who could have imagined me having an American for a daughter?