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'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.

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Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever.

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I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

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I was born in Puerto Rico - I used to sit in the sun until I looked like a piece of bacon. It's a wonder now that I don't look like an old wallet. I'm a very fortunate person.

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When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

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They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

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I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

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

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You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way.

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I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.

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I should be a representative for AARP!

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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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I feel like I could go on forever.

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I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

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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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When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

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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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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.

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I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I never, ever was able to do a part without assuming some kind of accent.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a raucous Puerto Rican!

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Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way.

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Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea.

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I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

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I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.

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I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

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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.

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I can't dwell on past mistakes.

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I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

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I was brought up on animal grease.

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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.

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

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A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

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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.

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I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that - that was before me. There was really nobody out there.

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