Cesar Romero

“That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'”

“It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

“I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.”

“You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.”

“I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.”

“George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.”

“They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.”

“If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.”

“I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.”

“Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.”

“I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.”

“But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.”

“Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.”

“I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.”

“We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.”

“All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.”