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

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" 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 am a very positive and optimistic person. "

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

" 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 am a woman of the moment. "

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

" Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. "

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

" Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way. You can see why performers get very self-absorbed. "

" Elvis was really sweet and kind of bashful, but he didn't have a whole lot to say. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm a raucous Puerto Rican! "

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

" My best work happened on the stage. "

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

" I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries. "

" If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life. "

" 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. "

" 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 you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're in a business where Latinos only play Indian maidens and what I call 'Conchita Lolita' parts - the little fiery spitfires - you do what you have to do. "

" I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico. "

" I was brought up on animal grease. "

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

" 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. "