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

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

" I feel like I could go on forever. "

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

" 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. "

" Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies. "

" What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing. "

" My best work happened on the stage. "

" There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it. "

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

" Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was always typecast as a Latina. "

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

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

" I made a lot of mistakes. "

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

" Let's face it. How often do you see an Asian face in films and television? They are practically invisible. Now and then, you will get one, and, interestingly, he gets the role of a scientist. Isn't that interesting? "

" I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted. "

" When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful. "

" I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that - that was before me. There was really nobody out there. "

" When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other? "

" Maybe it's my age, but I know I look good, so I'm not going to look like another person suddenly because I don't have makeup on - same hair, same person. "