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

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Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy. - Rita Moreno

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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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

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I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else. - Rita Moreno

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True happiness is found inside the heart. — Anurag Prakash Ray

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.- Henry Ford

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It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it. - Bille August -

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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

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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

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