Best 16 quotes of Rita Moreno on MyQuotes

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

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person... always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

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

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.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

My middle name really is perseverance. 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. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

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.

Retirement is just not in my DNA.

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

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.

When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.