Raquel Welch

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

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

I couldn`t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.

I’ve got to the point now where I can poke some fun at my old image and really enjoy letting go when a juicy role comes along.

Contrary to popular myth, I didn’t just hatch out of an eagle’s nest, circa One Million Years B.C., clad in a doe-skin bikini. In fact, I was more surprised than anyone to find myself on location in such an exotic setting, high atop a volcanic mountain in the Canary Islands! With the release of that famous movie poster, in one fell swoop, everything in my life changed and everything about the real me was swept away. All else would be eclipsed by this bigger-than-life sex symbol.

I tend to lean on the side of pessimism and I wish I could be more optimistic. I wish I could be better at taking things for what they are – not analyzing them – but just going about my life.

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your f**ing life.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet; that’s what gets me pretty upset.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That’s what I want to do.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’

For no. 1, it’s great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it’s great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just – it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

I’m the type to swallow my blood ‘fore I swallow my pride.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Remember-the only place men want depth in their women is in her décolletage.