Quotes from Raquel Welch

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.

I find clothes so constricting!

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

You can't fake listening. It shows.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it's open season on her.

I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?