Rita Moreno

"Huele las rosas. Huele el café. Lo que sea que te haga feliz."

- Rita Moreno

"It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people."

- Rita Moreno

"It is through art that we will prevail and endure. It lives on after us and defines us as a people."

- Rita Moreno

"There was nobody that I could look up and say “That’s somebody like me”. Which is probably why I’m now known in my community as ‘ La Pionera ’, or the Pioneer. I really don’t think of myself as a role model. But it turns out that I am to a lot of the Hispanic community. Not just in show business, but in life. But that’s what happens when you’re first, right?"

- Rita Moreno

"I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn."

- Rita Moreno

"The easiest way to prove them wrong is to do what they say you can’t."

- Rita Moreno

"I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That’s my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments."

- Rita Moreno