Raquel Welch

“I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?”

“People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.”

“I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.”

“You can't fake listening. It shows.”

“I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.”

“I find clothes so constricting!”

“I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it's open season on her.”

“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”

“I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.”

“The mind can also be an erogenous zone.”

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”

“There's a duality in every man and every woman.”

“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.”

“Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.”

“I've always been a health fanatic.”

“Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.”

“I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.”

“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.”

“When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.”

“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.”