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" 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. "

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

" I'm proud of me. "

" I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers. "

" The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me. "

" I can't dwell on past mistakes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was never offered enough, and that's the truth. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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