Eva Longoria lands in Dubai for her Global Gift Gala and chats with tabloid! about philanthropy, getting her masters degree, Latino women in show business and her future plans. She also shares her surprising New Year's resolution. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Probably an activist. I mean, I've been an activist and a philanthropist since before
00:19I was famous, and so I've always wanted to do work worldwide. I've started doing charity
00:27and philanthropy at a very young age because of my sister, and so had I not become famous,
00:34I still would be doing what I'm doing philanthropically.
00:42I was a much better student now, going back later in life, than I was when I was 20. I
00:48was in class and I was like, why couldn't I have been this student earlier and paid
00:53attention when I was younger? I think it's impossible. I'm much more curious about the
00:58world now, and so I'm very interested in what I'm learning. And that's very rare when you're
01:03so young and you're 18, you're not very interested in what you're trying to learn. So yeah, I
01:09was the kid in class, I was the old person in class who would say, you know, I have more
01:13questions and can we discuss that again? And I read ahead and I found out that, you know,
01:19so I was like the annoying student in class.
01:27I think we're still severely underrepresented in television and film, and as women too.
01:34So if you're, you know, a woman of a specific ethnicity, it's even harder. But you know,
01:40that's why I produce and direct, because I think you have to take charge of the problem
01:43and create your own stories and your own opportunities. You can't really sit back and wait for Hollywood
01:48to, you know, give you this amazing golden role. You have to go out and create those
01:53opportunities, not only for yourself, but for others.
01:59I have a movie coming out called Frontera with Michael Peña and Ed Harris, and that's
02:03about a border issue in the United States. And then I'm probably going to be going back
02:10to television soon. I really like the medium of television, and I like that schedule, and
02:16I like, you know, seeing the same people every day. So I really like television a lot
02:21more than movies.
02:26I love when people donate to the Eva Longoria Foundation, and they send me a card saying,
02:31you know, instead of getting you a really crappy, crappy gift, we're going to donate
02:35money to your foundation. That, that is the gift I wish everybody would give me.
02:44To be healthier, you know, I always try, that's always a New Year's resolution, just
02:47to work out more and eat better and, you know, get more sleep. That's my, that's my goal
02:51in the New Year, to sleep more.