Quotes by 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.
• San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
• Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
• Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
• The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
• Theatre is immediate gratification.
• We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
• 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.
• I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
• We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
• My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
• It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
• I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
• I'm an old-fashioned girl.
• I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
• I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
• I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
• I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
• I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
• Beauty is not everything!
• After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.