Chita Rivera

“Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.”

“You have to be passionate about things in your life.”

“'Chicago' is all about precision.”

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

“I'm an old-fashioned girl.”

“I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.”

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

“Outside of my own home, England is my second home.”

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

“Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.”

“You really never know what the next day brings you.”

“I've never been bored in live theater.”

“You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.”

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

“I have a very young outlook.”

“Theatre is immediate gratification.”

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

“Beauty is not everything!”

“I don't think you know how much you can do until you try.”

“I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.”