Rosie Perez Quotes

• Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

  Rosie Perez

  Mean, Dancing, Body

  "'Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.' —Rosie Perez" by Nelson George, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.

  Rosie Perez

  Winning, Ties, Needs

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• Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

  Rosie Perez

  Strong, Stars, Integrity

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• If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

  Rosie Perez

  People, Progress, Looks

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• If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

  Rosie Perez

  Opportunity, Doors, Down And

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• I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

  Rosie Perez

  Thinking, Dancer, Needs

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• You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

  Rosie Perez

  May, Born, Puerto Rico

  "Rosie Perez' U.S.-Puerto Rico Documentary". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. April 27, 2006.

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• You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

  Rosie Perez

  Privacy, Dear, Loses

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• You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

  Rosie Perez

  Steps, Boogie

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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Latin, Trying

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• I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

  Rosie Perez

  Thinking, Glasses, Pushing Forward

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• As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

  Rosie Perez

  Believe, Political, Progress

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• In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Coffee, Tea

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• Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

  Rosie Perez

  Color, Hot, Fats

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• I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

  Rosie Perez

  Lying, Age, Weakness

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• In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

  Rosie Perez

  Taken, Reality, Issues

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• I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

  Rosie Perez

  Feelings, Magazines, I Am Woman

  "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Latin, Office

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

  Rosie Perez

  Careers, Matter, Documentaries

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• I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

  Rosie Perez

  People, Roles, Looks

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• I want to be in shape.

  Rosie Perez

  Shapes, Want

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• I get bored in Hollywood.

  Rosie Perez

  Bored, Hollywood

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• I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

  Rosie Perez

  Appreciate, Brooklyn, Left

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• I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

  Rosie Perez

  Latin

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