Chita Rivera famous quotes

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

#Light #Theatre #Speak

I have always loved a challenge.
-- Chita Rivera

#Challenges

Theatre is immediate gratification
-- Chita Rivera

#Theatre #Immediate Gratification #Gratification

I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.
-- Chita Rivera

#Laughing #Joy #Joy Of Life

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.
-- Chita Rivera

#Feels

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.
-- Chita Rivera

#Alive #Theater #Audience

I love life. I love the live theater.
-- Chita Rivera

#Love Life #I Love Life #Theater

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.
-- Chita Rivera

#Believe #Language #Speak

I am young in my energy because I really still believe that we can share who we are, and we can wipe off on each other. I see this huge tapestry when we're born, and this red blob that's your soul or your heart.
-- Chita Rivera

#Believe #Heart #Soul

I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.
-- Chita Rivera

#Believe #Important #Culture

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.
-- Chita Rivera

#Thinking #Groups #Grew Up

I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.
-- Chita Rivera

#Aggravation #Separation

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.
-- Chita Rivera

#Kids #Focus #Feel Good

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.
-- Chita Rivera

#Body #Spirit #Good Things

I have a blessed life. I really do. I have a great family, a great daughter, I love life, I love living, I love people. I love all the blessings that God's given me.
-- Chita Rivera

#Daughter #Blessed #Love Life

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.
-- Chita Rivera

#Thinking #People #Audience

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
-- Chita Rivera

#Doe #Happy Endings

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.
-- Chita Rivera

#Looks #Way

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
-- Chita Rivera

#Beautiful #Glasses #Rooms

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
-- Chita Rivera

#Angel #San Francisco #America

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
-- Chita Rivera

#Lucky

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
-- Chita Rivera

#Done #Welcome #Busy

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
-- Chita Rivera

#Easter #New York #People

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh
-- Chita Rivera

#Latin #Laughing #Enough

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
-- Chita Rivera

#Shopping #Found #Hairdresser

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
-- Chita Rivera

#Italian #Greek #Way

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
-- Chita Rivera

#Boring

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
-- Chita Rivera

#Communication #Theatre

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.
-- Chita Rivera

#Generations #Stills #Generator

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

#Opposites #Fabulous #Feels

For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.
-- Chita Rivera

#Fun #Who I Am #Years

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.
-- Chita Rivera

#Memories #Single Mom #Film

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
-- Chita Rivera

#Winning #Winner #Minutes

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
-- Chita Rivera

#Europe #Affair #Love Affair

Beauty is not everything!
-- Chita Rivera

#Beauty

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.
-- Chita Rivera

#Dance #Mother #President