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" I auditioned for 'West Side Story' just like everybody else, and I nearly had a heart attack, because I hadn't danced in about - oh, I don't know, about 15 years. "

Rita Moreno

Heart

Attack

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Good

Wake Up

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I've been neurotic in my life; I've had neurotic relationships with men. What else is new? But you really have to learn to be resilient - able to bounce back, pick yourself up, and just keep moving. "

" I am a very positive and optimistic person. "

" 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. "

" Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model. "

" 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. "

Rita Moreno

Fools

Funny

" 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. "

" All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

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

" I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough. "

" People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about. "

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

" Doing 'The Electric Company' was the most fun ever. "

" 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. "

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

" You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way. "

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