Chita Rivera

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Beauty is not everything!

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Theatre is immediate gratification.