Rita Moreno Quotes

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

Rita Moreno

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My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.

Jim Starlin

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I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

Joe Mantello

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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Andrea Bocelli

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When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

Andy Rourke

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People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable.

Ann Robinson

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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

Amy Sherald

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Robert Wyatt

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TLC's always been sexy but always tasteful.

Rozonda Thomas

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

Don Lemon

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How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Johnny Depp

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Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

Bonnie Hammer

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