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

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

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

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

" It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses. "

" I'm a raucous Puerto Rican! "

" 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. "

" They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it. "

" 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 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! "

" A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are. "

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

" I can't dwell on past mistakes. "

" I figure if I keep my spirit in shape, the bones will take care of themselves. "

" If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming. "

" I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. "

" I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers. "

" 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. "

" 'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you're off the cover.' "

" I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly. "

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

" Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale. "

" The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you. "

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

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

" 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. "