Chita Rivera Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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• Beauty is not everything!

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

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

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• I’m an old-fashioned girl.

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• It’s communication – that’s what theatre is all about.

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

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

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

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

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

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• Theatre is immediate gratification.

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

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  Tags in Close, Show

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

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  Tags in Amazing, California, Southern

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

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• 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.

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Chita Rivera (21)

Birth:	23rd January, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Dancer, Singer

About

Chita Rivera was born in Washington, D.C., USA. She is an American actress, dancer and singer. She is the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. She appeared as Fastrada in a filmed-for-television version of the musical Pippin in 1981. In 1993, she received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Aurora in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, written by Kander and Ebb.

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