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" I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that. "

" The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me. "

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

" I am a woman of the moment. "

" I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, 'Don't run. It's not dignified.' "

" You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I never, ever was able to do a part without assuming some kind of accent. "

" 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. "

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

" My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.' "

" If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life. "

" You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking. "

" I'm proud of me. "

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

" 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. "

" Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy. "

" 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. "

" 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 feel like I could go on forever. "

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