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Rosie Perez
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" Hollywood's racist. "
Rosie Perez
Hollywood
" I used to get recognized quite often as being a 'Soul Train' dancer. Quite often, which was great at times but sometimes was not so great. Especially, back at college, it was not so great. It was pretty tough. "
Rosie Perez
Soul
Great
College
" I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. "
Rosie Perez
Appreciate
Until
Brooklyn
" It's disgusting how much I laugh during the day. "
Rosie Perez
Day
How
Disgusting
" I like the cold weather better than the hot weather. "
Rosie Perez
Cold
Better
Hot
" If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever. "
Rosie Perez
Progress
Look
Ugly
" I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft. "
Rosie Perez
Soft
Exterior
Tough
" People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else. "
Rosie Perez
Me
Woman
Like
" In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it. "
Rosie Perez
Out
Really
Shoot
" I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. "
Rosie Perez
Person
Think
Positive
" I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it. "
Rosie Perez
Story
Think
Way
" You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great. "
Rosie Perez
Great
Believe In Yourself
Yourself
" It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation. "
Rosie Perez
Part
Sad
Curriculum
" I get bored in Hollywood. "
Rosie Perez
Bored
Hollywood
Get
" Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing. "
Rosie Perez
Dancing
Want
Hip-Hop
" I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. "
Rosie Perez
People
Take
Want
" I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. "
Rosie Perez
Celebrity
Try
Star
" For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world. "
Rosie Perez
Life
World
Thought
" Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing. "
Rosie Perez
Clinical
Therapy
Thing
" The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. "
Rosie Perez
Stop
Window
Racism
" I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful. "
Rosie Perez
Day
Going
Me
" At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time. "
Rosie Perez
Quiet
Way
Too Much
" I have a picture of all of us going to a club with my friends from 'Soul Train.' All the girls just going out to a nightclub, and we're all dressed like we were dressed on 'Soul Train.' It was the most surreal experience for me because I walk into the club with them, and people started screaming. 'Oh my God! It's the 'Soul Train' dancers.' "
Rosie Perez
People
Soul
God
" I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican. "
Rosie Perez
Puerto
Rican
Myself
" Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself. "
Rosie Perez
Art
Myself
Off
" I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?' "
Rosie Perez
Feeling
Me
Saying
" With 'Soul Train,' it was the first time I was on television. And I just couldn't believe it. "
Rosie Perez
Believe
Television
Train
" Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved. "
Rosie Perez
Think
Independence
United States
" You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie. "
Rosie Perez
Cannot
Learn
Steps
" I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn. "
Rosie Perez
Aunt
Brooklyn
Care