Rita Moreno famous quotes

03-28-2025

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.
-- Rita Moreno

#Art #People #Endure
This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.
-- Rita Moreno

#Home #Ideas #Heaven
Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
-- Rita Moreno

#Life Is #Bigger #Difficult
People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
-- Rita Moreno

#Attitude #Numbers #People
I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.
-- Rita Moreno

#Attitude #Believe #Heart
You don't die if someone doesn't like you.
-- Rita Moreno

#Like You #Dies #Ifs
My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.
-- Rita Moreno

#Perseverance #Names #People
I'm an actress, and I am Latina.
-- Rita Moreno

#Actresses #Latina
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.
-- Rita Moreno

#Color #Black #Thai
Retirement is just not in my DNA.
-- Rita Moreno

#Retirement #Dna
I'm so happy. I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am.
-- Rita Moreno

#People #Knows
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
-- Rita Moreno

#Special #Oscars #Performances
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
-- Rita Moreno

#People #Sense Of Humor #Instance
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
-- Rita Moreno

#Lying #Thinking #Ideas
I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.
-- Rita Moreno

#People #Mets #Joyous
I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.
-- Rita Moreno

#Mom #Thinking #Littles
I'm 85, and I'm still a sexual being, or a sensual being.
-- Rita Moreno

#Sensual #Stills
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
-- Rita Moreno

#Attention #Actors #Applause
I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person... always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.
-- Rita Moreno

#Couple #Issues #Important
I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.
-- Rita Moreno

#Prime
When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.
-- Rita Moreno

#Hate #Heart #Exercise
As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.
-- Rita Moreno

#Glasses #Voice #Happens
Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.
-- Rita Moreno

#Writing #Editors #Cities
I've always been a very sexual person. That doesn't mean I'm going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I'm a sexual being.
-- Rita Moreno

#Mean #Men #Feelings
I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.
-- Rita Moreno

#Husband #Thinking #Hands

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