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" 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. "

Rita Moreno

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

" If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people. "

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

" No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be. "

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Own

Choices

" 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. "

" You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing. "

Rita Moreno

Easy

Friends

" '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 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. "

" There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that make me laugh: I look like the poor man's Maria Montez. But there are some I look at, and I didn't realize how sexy I looked back then. "

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

Rita Moreno

Met

I Am

" I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it. "

" You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer. "

" I make a lot of soups and stews at home, and I always have fresh bread with it. "

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

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

Rita Moreno

Good

Wake Up

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

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

" I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else. "

" 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. "

" I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries. "

" When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma. "

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

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

" 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. "