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" I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about. "

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" 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. "

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" The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal. "

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

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

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

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

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" Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place. "

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" I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming. "

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

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

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

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" 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! "

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

" I am a woman of the moment. "

" My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "

" 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. "

" Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. "

" 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. "

" Elvis was really sweet and kind of bashful, but he didn't have a whole lot to say. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "