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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'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 think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. "

" I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up. "

" I was brought up on animal grease. "

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

" I've always had this image of this strong, sprightly person who is undaunted by anything; on the contrary, I was one of the shyest, most unsure people you ever met in your life. But I have one very specific quality: I'm plucky. I really am. I would say that's a perfect description of my personality. "

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

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

" I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned. "

" I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them. "

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

" Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally. "

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

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

" My best work happened on the stage. "

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

" I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico. "

" 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. "

" Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm a raucous Puerto Rican! "

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

" I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing. "

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