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" Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff. "
Rita Moreno
Same
Time
She
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" I was the artsy one, and my husband took care of all our finances. It was the Latino way - the man is in charge of the money. "
Rita Moreno
Man
Husband
Way
" When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did. "
Rita Moreno
Goodness
Purple
Used
" I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful. "
Rita Moreno
Me
Talent
Faith
" My husband and I were very different: I'm spontaneous and emotional; I'm loud - he was exactly the opposite. But you need to be flexible. "
Rita Moreno
Flexible
Emotional
Husband
" My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body. "
Rita Moreno
Voice
Like
Body
" I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing. "
Rita Moreno
Go
Easy
Friends
" I should be a representative for AARP! "
Rita Moreno
Representative
Should
" Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous. "
Rita Moreno
Just
Actress
I Think
" I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it. "
Rita Moreno
Year
Grandchildren
Just
" No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be. "
Rita Moreno
Own
Choices
Me
" There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that make me laugh: I look like the poor man's Maria Montez. But there are some I look at, and I didn't realize how sexy I looked back then. "
Rita Moreno
Sexy
Early
Laugh
" Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving. "
Rita Moreno
Moving
Need
Keep Moving
" I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country. "
Rita Moreno
Tell
You
Best
" I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.' "
Rita Moreno
Play
Captain
Down
" I'm a raucous Puerto Rican! "
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rican
Puerto
Rican
" I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about. "
Rita Moreno
Woman
Trying
Speak
" I made a lot of mistakes. "
Rita Moreno
Lot
Mistakes
Made
" Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature? "
Rita Moreno
Television
Creature
Grandmother
" Doing 'The Electric Company' was the most fun ever. "
Rita Moreno
Doing
Electric
Fun
" The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes. "
Rita Moreno
Latino
Kind
I Am
" I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn. "
Rita Moreno
Moving Forward
Myself
Up
" I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that. "
Rita Moreno
Doing
Grandchildren
Daughter
" My video has a lot to do with the inside of a woman. Usually, exercise videos refer to exteriors only. They never talk to a woman where she lives - in her heart and soul. I do that at the beginning and end of mine. "
Rita Moreno
Woman
Beginning
End
" The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal. "
Rita Moreno
Animal
Concert
Things
" You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. "
Rita Moreno
Special
Performance
Oscar
" I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly. "
Rita Moreno
Broadway
Shower
Stuff
" I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory. "
Rita Moreno
Only
Cook
Iron
" The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you. "
Rita Moreno
You
Group
Die
" I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius. "
Rita Moreno
Think
Genius
I Think
" You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing. "
Rita Moreno
Honest
Decision
Going