Raquel Welch
American, Actress
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- My father was a perfectionist. We had to hop to everything and have marvelous table manners. I could only wear navy blue and gray and white. He wanted me to be interested in tennis and horses just like a little princess, but I couldn't stand such things.
- (about Mae West) I do think she was a spectacular talent. There's no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.
- Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
- I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
- We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
- I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
- You can't fake listening. It shows.
- Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
- The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
- I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.
- (in 1973) I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
- If you have physical attractiveness you don't have to act.
- Americans have always had sex symbols. It'a time-honored tradition and I'm flattered to have been one. But it's hard to have a long, fruitful career once you've been stereotyped that way. That's why I'm proud to say I've endured.
- The mind is an erogenous zone.
- Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.