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You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work.
Chita Rivera
Work
Best
You
People
Out
Best Work
Allowing
Get
Them
Theatre is immediate gratification.
Chita Rivera
Theatre
Immediate
Gratification
Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separation. But both have equal importance.
Chita Rivera
Experience
Theatre
Book
Separation
Enjoy
Tremendous
More
Both
Cabaret
Importance
Equal
Doing
Up
Very
Close
Personal
Personal Experience
Difference
Being
Where
Which
Much
Show
Large
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
Chita Rivera
Experience
Before
Busy
Never
Had
New
Welcoming
Done
Movie
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
Chita Rivera
Way
French
Been
Italian
Greek
American
Really
Lucky
Played
The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
Chita Rivera
Came
Go
Very
Close
Did
Going
Show
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
Chita Rivera
You
Back
Fabulous
Having
Feel
Like
Course
Tightened
Audience
Opposite
Been
La
Up
Whether
Which
Pulled
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
Chita Rivera
You
Theatre
Speak
Immediately
Respond
Plug
Take
Put
Lights
Up
Away
Right
Right Away
The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.
Chita Rivera
Better
Heritage
Else
Background
Does
Than
Role
Person
Get
Anyone
Anyone Else
Regardless
Should
Who
'Chicago' is all about precision.
Chita Rivera
About
Chicago
Precision
I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.
Chita Rivera
Scholarship
New
Got
Ballet
Came
York
New York
Then
Washington
Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!
Chita Rivera
Me
Mother
Trouble
Out
Stay
Never
She
Said
Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.
Chita Rivera
Dancer
Absolutely
Always
You really never know what the next day brings you.
Chita Rivera
Day
You
Never
Know
Really
Next
Brings
I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.
Chita Rivera
Me
Class
Mother
Dance
Furniture
Broke
Had
Put
House
She
Up
Get
Just
Rid
You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.
Chita Rivera
You
Soul
Yourself
Imagination
Bit
Spirit
Touch
More
Shape
Like
Makes
Really
Your
Keeps
You have to be passionate about things in your life.
Chita Rivera
Life
You
About
Passionate
Your
Things
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
Chita Rivera
Me
Genius
Lifetime
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
David Zayas
Work
Director
Try
Job
Characteristics
Adjust
Tries
He
Part
Opinion
Understand
How
In My Opinion
Actor
To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.
David Zayas
Challenge
Project
Mindset
Like
Another
Person
Get
Trying
I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.
David Zayas
Love
Character
You
Blessing
Would
Find
Able
Similar
Voice
Through
Develop
Make
Making
Different
Eighty
Decisions
Choices
Episodes
Act
Your
Differently
There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
David Zayas
Too
Teeth
Brave
Sitting
Getting
Afraid
Many
Chair
Things
Art has to be reflective of our society.
David Zayas
Art
Society
Our
Reflective
People who hand over democracy in exchange for economic security end up losing both things.
Eduardo Bhatia
Democracy
People
Losing
Security
Both
Economic
Exchange
Economic Security
Over
Hand
End
Up
Who
Things
In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.
Eduardo Bhatia
Government
Focus
Diversity
Efforts
Century
Should
Languages
Multiculturalism
Including
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
Eduardo Bhatia
Constitution
Rights
Unbelievable
Federal
Court
Itself
Ignores
Rico
Puerto
Apply
Puerto Rico
Guaranteed
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