146 Quotes by Rita Moreno

I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.

I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.

The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.