146 Quotes by Rita Moreno

I am a very positive and optimistic person.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally.

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

I'm proud of me.

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' just like everybody else, and I nearly had a heart attack, because I hadn't danced in about - oh, I don't know, about 15 years.

Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

I just love details; I love trying to make the reader smell what I was smelling at the time and see what I was seeing. Textures, too - all that kind of stuff is probably my strong suit as far as my writing goes, I would say.