Rita Moreno : (11)

" My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor. " - Rita Moreno

" 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. " - Rita Moreno

" Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies. " - Rita Moreno

" Is there a grandmother that isn’t spunky on television? Is there such a creature? " - Rita Moreno

" I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn’t matter who I was playing. " - Rita Moreno

" You can never fight for a part or can’t beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works. " - Rita Moreno

" I was brought up on animal grease. " - Rita Moreno

" I’m a raucous Puerto Rican! " - Rita Moreno

" My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body. " - Rita Moreno

" ‘Revolutionary Road’ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it. " - Rita Moreno