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Rita Moreno

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 11, 1931

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

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I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just hilarious. I just saw it again recently and by God, it's still funny!

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

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Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

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I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

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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 first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.'

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Doing 'The Electric Company' was the most fun ever.

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The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.

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

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I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

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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.

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I can't dwell on past mistakes.

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