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

- 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

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

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification.

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

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

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

- Chita Rivera

Beauty is not everything!

- Chita Rivera

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

- Chita Rivera

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

- 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

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

- 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