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Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.
Rita Moreno
Me
You
Keep Moving
Never
Done
Moving
Much
Keep
Need
Let's face it. How often do you see an Asian face in films and television? They are practically invisible. Now and then, you will get one, and, interestingly, he gets the role of a scientist. Isn't that interesting?
Rita Moreno
You
Will
Face
Films
Television
See
He
Invisible
Practically
How
Scientist
Role
Get
Gets
Often
Interesting
Asian
Then
Interestingly
Now
Now And Then
I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.
Rita Moreno
You
Fall
Down
Know
Up
Person
Get
Who
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
Money
Latin
Those
Latino
Kids
Kind
Classes
Take
Days
Am
Were
Lot
Any
Reason
Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.
Rita Moreno
Love
Story
Then
Universal
Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
Rita Moreno
Life
Me
Difficult
Am
Than
Bigger
I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.
Rita Moreno
Life
Good
Wake Up
Damn
Complain
Humming
Dare
Still
Wake
Up
Get
Lucky
Here
I have stamina, and I have energy.
Rita Moreno
Energy
Stamina
It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.
Rita Moreno
Myself
Opportunities
Few
Young
Others
Kind
About
Talk
Still
Were
Hispanic
Very
Heartbreaking
Get
Lack
Moved
Available
Who
Now
Actress
What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.
Rita Moreno
Work
Important
Young
Think
Musical
Physical
Performers
Knowing
Well
Terribly
Lot
Selves
Straight
Them
Body
Your
Flexibility
Your Body
Actor
Awkward
Bring
My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.
Rita Moreno
Voice
Like
Dynamics
Little
Body
Many
I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.
Rita Moreno
Home
Embarrassed
Pictures
Go
Get
Them
Filled
Actor
Actress
My video has a lot to do with the inside of a woman. Usually, exercise videos refer to exteriors only. They never talk to a woman where she lives - in her heart and soul. I do that at the beginning and end of mine.
Rita Moreno
Soul
Woman
Heart
Videos
Beginning
Mine
Inside
Only
Never
Talk
She
Exercise
Refer
Lot
Heart And Soul
End
Where
Video
Lives
Her
I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country.
Rita Moreno
Best
You
Country
Tea
Every
Tell
Afternoon
Who
I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.
Rita Moreno
Love
Good
Mandatory
Exactly
Only
Bake
Housekeeping
Although
Because
Am
Iron
Cook
Even
Good Housekeeping
Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.
Rita Moreno
You
People
Dancing
Steps
Know
Most
Learn
Auditions
Now
Right
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
Rita Moreno
You
Unless
Performance
Nominated
Turned
Special
Oscar
I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.
Rita Moreno
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
She
Felt
Up
Very
Inferior
Child
Grew
Who
I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing.
Rita Moreno
Time
Past
Nothing
Easy
Never
Had
Making
Go
Friends
In The Past
Therapy
Reasons
Many
I am a very positive and optimistic person.
Rita Moreno
Positive
Am
Very
Optimistic
Optimistic Person
Person
If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.
Rita Moreno
Me
You
King
Face
Saw
Angelic
Had
'America' took at least five days of actual filming.
Rita Moreno
Took
Days
Least
Five
America
Actual
Filming
I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly.
Rita Moreno
Broadway
Stuff
Sing
Mostly
Shower
Doing 'The Electric Company' was the most fun ever.
Rita Moreno
Most
Doing
Electric
Fun
Company
Ever
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
You
Fight
Try
Rarely
Never
Part
Another
Audition
Beg
Them
Works
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
Life
Myself
You
My Life
Seen
Sense
Every
Destroying
Maiden
Had
House
Because
Been
Being
Movies
Ethnic
Your
Ever
Play
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