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

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" I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that. "

" I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country. "

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

" Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever. "

" 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. "

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

" They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. "

" 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. "

" A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are. "

" 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 think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius. "

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

" I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about. "

" 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 should be a representative for AARP! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always typecast as a Latina. "

" I'm a raucous Puerto Rican! "

" 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. "

" Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature? "