Latest Rita Moreno Quotes from Interviews

• Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

  Rita Moreno

  Running, Cities, Want

  Source: 55plusmag.us

• Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.

  Rita Moreno

  Writing, Editors, Cities

• 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.

  Rita Moreno

  Glasses, Voice, Happens

  Source: 55plusmag.us

• I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.

  Rita Moreno

  Husband, Thinking, Hands

• When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.

  Rita Moreno

  Hate, Heart, Exercise

  Source: 55plusmag.us

• I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

  Rita Moreno

  Attitude, Believe, Heart

  Source: 55plusmag.us

• I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person... always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

  Rita Moreno

  Couple, Issues, Important

  Source: 55plusmag.us

• You don't die if someone doesn't like you.

  Rita Moreno

  Like You, Dies, Ifs

  Source: www.vulture.com

• C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

  Rita Moreno

  Attention, Actors, Applause

  Source: www.vulture.com

• Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

  Rita Moreno

  Color, Black, Thai

  Source: www.vulture.com

• 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.

  Rita Moreno

  Mom, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.vulture.com

• I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

  Rita Moreno

  Actresses, Latina

  Source: www.vulture.com

• I'm so happy. I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am.

  Rita Moreno

  People, Knows

  Source: www.vulture.com

• I'm 85, and I'm still a sexual being, or a sensual being.

  Rita Moreno

  Sensual, Stills

  Source: www.vulture.com

• 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.

  Rita Moreno

  Mean, Men, Feelings

  Source: www.vulture.com

• 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.

  Rita Moreno

  People, Sense Of Humor, Instance

  Source: www.vulture.com

• Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

  Rita Moreno

  Grandmother, Television, Creatures

  Source: www.vulture.com

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

  Rita Moreno

  Special, Oscars, Performances

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My middle name really is perseverance. 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. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

  Rita Moreno

  Perseverance, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Rita Moreno

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

  Rita Moreno

  Prime

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

  Rita Moreno

  People, Mets, Joyous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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