Rita Moreno Quotes (12 Quotes)

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Apparently, I think it's Columbia Records has Betty Wand's name on all of the stuff that I did, too, and that's made me very, very unhappy.

When was the last time you saw a story being driven forward by dances and songs

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

The reason was that there simply weren't enough Hispanic - forget Puerto Rican - Hispanic male and female dancers at the time who could do the kind of professional job that was needed for Jerome Robbins' choreography, which is, you might have noticed, extremely complex and very difficult.

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

I love the people here. I love New York.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

I think it was absolutely a noble cause. Kids watched it for the entertainment, but they were learning at the same time. I think it's something brilliant that deserves to be out there again.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.