Quotes from Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.