Quotes By Chita Rivera

Beauty is not everything!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'm an old-fashioned girl.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Theatre is immediate gratification.

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