Quotes from Chita Rivera

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

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

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

I love life. I love the live theater.

I have a blessed life. I really do. I have a great family, a great daughter, I love life, I love living, I love people. I love all the blessings that God's given me.

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

Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separation. But both have equal importance.

When you're in a big theater, you want to reach the very top of the place. Up to the highest seat, so that each person feels like you're talking to them. There's really no difference when you're in a smaller place; you just don't overdo it. It becomes far more personal.

I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

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

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

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

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

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

Beauty is not everything!

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

I have a very young outlook.

Outside of my own home, England is my second home.

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

Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

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