Chita Rivera
Beauty is not everything!Collection: Beauty
You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.Collection: Imagination
Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!Collection: Travel
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.Collection: Communication
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.Collection: Amazing
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
Outside of my own home, England is my second home.
I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.
You really never know what the next day brings you.
I don't think you know how much you can do until you try.
Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.
You have to be passionate about things in your life.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
I'm an old-fashioned girl.
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work.
I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
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.
You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.
I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.
The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.
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.
'Chicago' is all about precision.
I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.
Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!
I have a very young outlook.
I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.
I'm very competitive. I do like to win.
You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.
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've never been bored in live theater.
'Spiderwoman' was wonderful. I think that show is a very important piece of theatre.
I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.Collection: Laughing
The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.Collection: Body
Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.Collection: Memories
I am young in my energy because I really still believe that we can share who we are, and we can wipe off on each other. I see this huge tapestry when we're born, and this red blob that's your soul or your heart.Collection: Believe
Theatre is immediate gratificationCollection: Theatre