Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

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.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.'

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I am a very positive and optimistic person.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I'm a raucous Puerto Rican!

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. And it's genuine.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

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