Puerto Rican - Actress | December 11, 1931 -
'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.
Rita Moreno
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Doing 'The Electric Company' was the most fun ever.
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A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.
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You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works.
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My best work happened on the stage.
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I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.
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I was always typecast as a Latina.
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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.
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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.
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Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.
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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.
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I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.
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