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" 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? "

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" 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. "

Rita Moreno

Nobody

Said

Matter

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Rita Moreno

Fall

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rita Moreno

Fools

Funny

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

" I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. "

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

" I first became aware of Gina Rodriguez when she was just starting out starring on 'Jane the Virgin,' and a friend sent me an article in which she mentioned me. "

Rita Moreno

Friend

Just

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

" You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works. "

" I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life. "

" My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all! "

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

Rita Moreno

Good

Wake Up

" I was brought up on animal grease. "

Rita Moreno

Grease

Animal

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

" I should be a representative for AARP! "

Rita Moreno

Representative

Should

" Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life. "

" When I was a little girl, there was no Variety Latino. When I was a little girl, there was no nothing. There were very few roles for people like myself. "

" I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly. "

" '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.' "

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

Rita Moreno

Afraid

Color

" My video has a lot to do with the inside of a woman. Usually, exercise videos refer to exteriors only. They never talk to a woman where she lives - in her heart and soul. I do that at the beginning and end of mine. "

" I am a very positive and optimistic person. "

" If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face. "