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. — Rita Moreno

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful. — Rita Moreno

Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors… really wonderful people. — Rita Moreno

One time when i found some lingerie that was not mine, i just went home devastated, weeping and crying–and something wonderful happened the next day. — Rita Moreno

Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she’s just marvelous. — Rita Moreno

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it’s not mandatory. — Rita Moreno

C’mon, we’re actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don’t like to be rejected. — Rita Moreno

I love performing for kids, but you can’t play down to them, of course. Then it would be ‘Captain Kangaroo.’ — Rita Moreno

I love playing people who don’t have a sense of humor for instance, there’s nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor. — Rita Moreno

I watch ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it. — Rita Moreno

I was sure It was goIng to be judy garland. — Rita Moreno

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

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people. — Rita Moreno

Retirement is just not in my DNA. — Rita Moreno

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body. — Rita Moreno

I’m so happy. I’m one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. — Rita Moreno

Tonight, we honor five artists who helped tell the story of the first american century through music, theater, and film, and by doing so, helped to shape it. — Rita Moreno

If I get a hangnail, I don’t dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming. — Rita Moreno

I first became aware of Gina Rodriguez when she was just starting out starring on ‘Jane the Virgin,’ and a friend sent me an article in which she mentioned me. — Rita Moreno

I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young. — Rita Moreno

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

I believe staying young at heart is all in one’s personal attitude… you can’t instill that in anyone. — Rita Moreno

No one’s going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be. — Rita Moreno

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.’ — Rita Moreno

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

I think it’s important to be reminded that that’s what this country is comprised of–people from other countries. — Rita Moreno

Puerto Ricans are many colors–we are Spanish, we’re French, we’re Thai, Indian, we’re almost black, some of us. — Rita Moreno

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. — Rita Moreno

I’ve always been a very sexual person. That doesn’t mean I’m going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I’m a sexual being. — Rita Moreno

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor. — Rita Moreno

If you’re going to make black movies only about black people, that’s as bad as white movies only about white people. — Rita Moreno

Is there a grandmother that isn’t spunky on television? Is there such a creature? — Rita Moreno

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. — Rita Moreno

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

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone’s going to catch you. — Rita Moreno

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty–five… It’s all about attitude. To me, age is just a number. — Rita Moreno

I’ve always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn’t worthy. — Rita Moreno

I’m 81 and I’m in the prime of my life. — Rita Moreno