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" My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all! "
Rita Moreno
Everything
Grandkids
Family
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" I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough. "
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" I started dancing almost before I could walk. "
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" 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. "
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" Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down. "
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" Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy. "
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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. "
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" If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people. "
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People
" 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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Choices
Me
" If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face. "
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Saw
Had
Face
" 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. "
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Dancing
Great
" I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers. "
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Before
Say
" Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring. "
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Boring
Darling
" I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that. "
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Doing
Grandchildren
Daughter
" I am a very positive and optimistic person. "
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Optimistic
Person
Positive
" I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. And it's genuine. "
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People
Am
Genuine
" 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. "
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Wake Up
Lucky
Life
" I'm not afraid of color. I like color. "
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Like
Afraid
Color
" I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly. "
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Am
Met
I Am
" 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. "
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Time
Strong
Love
" I was never offered enough, and that's the truth. "
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Truth
Offered
Never
" 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. "
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My Own
People
Community
" 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. "
Rita Moreno
Age
Good
Makeup
" 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. "
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Me
Fools
Funny
" You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing. "
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Decision
Going
" I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing. "
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Go
Easy
Friends
" I was the artsy one, and my husband took care of all our finances. It was the Latino way - the man is in charge of the money. "
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Way
" Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea. "
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Name
Yes
True
" I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.' "
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Captain
Down
" I feel like I could go on forever. "
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Go
" When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other? "
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People
Last