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" Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't dwell on past mistakes. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale. "

" My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those. "

" It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses. "

" Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff. "

" I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful. "

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

" 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. "

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