Chita Rivera Quotes

I don`t think I`ve ever played Houston.

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.

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

The company we`ve got now is brilliant.

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

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

I don`t know what Texas is all about. We kinda make jokes about it, like being run out of town. But we`re brave enough to face it.

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.

Somebody told me once I wasn`t Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

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

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

You knew the dance numbers, and you knew that Fosse was gonna put it together, so you had to start at that level of energy again.

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

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

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

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

Theatre is immediate gratification.

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

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

We`re going to Puerto Rico, where we`re gonna close. And we`re so excited, we can`t see straight.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn`t do well there.

I`m very grateful that so many people are not sick any longer... I`m so grateful not to be going to so many funerals, and losing my friends.

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

Beauty is not everything!

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