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

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

" Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal. "

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

" I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it. "

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

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

" 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. "

" 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 an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that. "

" Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies. "

" My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those. "

" I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young. "

" The part of my personality that most irritated my husband, some of our big, big disagreements were when I got what he called 'showbiz.' He meant flamboyant or raucous. "

" What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves. "

" I was brought up on animal grease. "

" Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. "

" I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries. "

" 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. "

" There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it. "

" Elvis was really sweet and kind of bashful, but he didn't have a whole lot to say. "

" Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff. "

" 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 grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else. "

" I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.' "

" I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. "