Rita Moreno Quotes

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Rita Moreno

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 11, 1931

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

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

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Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

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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.

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

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

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I was brought up on animal grease.

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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.

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I make a lot of soups and stews at home, and I always have fresh bread with it.

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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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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.

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It's not easy having a partnership in this business.

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I made a lot of mistakes.

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I'm a raucous Puerto Rican!

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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.

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I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart businesswoman.

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

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Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

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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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