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" I feel like I could go on forever. "
Rita Moreno
I Feel Like
Feel
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" I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly. "
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" You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country. "
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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. "
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" You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer. "
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" I can't dwell on past mistakes. "
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" All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. "
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" Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal. "
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" I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just hilarious. I just saw it again recently and by God, it's still funny! "
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" I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments. "
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" 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. "
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Beginning
End
" I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico. "
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Time
Years
" Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. "
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Tolerance
Little
Arrogance
" 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. "
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" I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart businesswoman. "
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" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "
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Started
" The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you. "
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Group
Die
" It's not easy having a partnership in this business. "
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Having
Partnership
Business
" 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. "
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Own
Choices
Me
" 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. "
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Things
" 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. "
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" I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. "
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" If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face. "
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" I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough. "
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" I just love details; I love trying to make the reader smell what I was smelling at the time and see what I was seeing. Textures, too - all that kind of stuff is probably my strong suit as far as my writing goes, I would say. "
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" Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea. "
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Yes
True
" I have stamina, and I have energy. "
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Stamina