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Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff.
Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.
I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.
I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.
I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.
I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.
It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.
I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart businesswoman.
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.
I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.
I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing.
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works.
I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.'
You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer.
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.
You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way.
Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever.
I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.
The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.
As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.
I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.
I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.
'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.
I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.
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.
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 live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.
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 knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.
There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
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.
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
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.
You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.
I've always been a very sexual person. That doesn't mean I'm going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I'm a sexual being.
You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.
I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down.