I'm not afraid of color. I like color. - Rita Moreno

---

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

---

Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. — Lisa Weed

---

Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model. - Rita Moreno

---

It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses. - Rita Moreno

---

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. — Edwin Elliot

---

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned. - Rita Moreno

---

'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? - Cory Hardrict

---

Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

---

Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.

---