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. Rita Moreno Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg,’ and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, ‘Don’t run. It’s not dignified.’ Rita Moreno Read Quote
Revolutionary Road’ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it. Rita Moreno Read Quote
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. Rita Moreno Read Quote
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 Read Quote
