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" Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring. "

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" My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all! "

" 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. "

" A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer. "

" I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that - that was before me. There was really nobody out there. "

" I'm not afraid of color. I like color. "

" If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people. "

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

" I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. And it's genuine. "

" I was brought up on animal grease. "

" 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. "

" I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly. "

" You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works. "

" This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. "

" Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature? "

" I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted. "

" I first became aware of Gina Rodriguez when she was just starting out starring on 'Jane the Virgin,' and a friend sent me an article in which she mentioned me. "

" 'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you're off the cover.' "

" When I was a little girl, there was no Variety Latino. When I was a little girl, there was no nothing. There were very few roles for people like myself. "

" If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face. "

" I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain. "

" I was born in Puerto Rico - I used to sit in the sun until I looked like a piece of bacon. It's a wonder now that I don't look like an old wallet. I'm a very fortunate person. "

" I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn. "

" If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream. "

" Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place. "

" I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming. "

" Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving. "