146 Quotes by Rita Moreno

I started dancing almost before I could walk.

I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about.

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.

I should be a representative for AARP!

People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.

I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.