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" 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. "

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

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

" I made a lot of mistakes. "

" 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 just love details; I love trying to make the reader smell what I was smelling at the time and see what I was seeing. Textures, too - all that kind of stuff is probably my strong suit as far as my writing goes, I would say. "

" 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. "

" My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body. "

" You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way. "

" 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. "

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

" I auditioned for 'West Side Story' just like everybody else, and I nearly had a heart attack, because I hadn't danced in about - oh, I don't know, about 15 years. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about. "

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

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

" I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments. "

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

" 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. "

" I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's not easy having a partnership in this business. "

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