“I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.” — Rita Moreno

I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you're off the cover.'