Quotations and phrases - Chita Rivera

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
-- Chita Rivera

Beauty is not everything!
-- Chita Rivera

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

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.
-- Chita Rivera

I don't think I've ever played Houston.
-- Chita Rivera

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

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

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

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

I'm an old-fashioned girl.
-- Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
-- Chita Rivera

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.
-- Chita Rivera

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

It was interesting to me to cut and then have to remember exactly where you were when you had to pick it up again.
-- Chita Rivera

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

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
-- Chita Rivera

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
-- Chita Rivera

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

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

The company we've got now is brilliant.
-- Chita Rivera

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

Theatre is immediate gratification.
-- Chita Rivera

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

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

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.
-- Chita Rivera

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.
-- Chita Rivera

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.
-- Chita Rivera

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