After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
Chita Rivera

Beauty is not everything!
Chita Rivera

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
Chita Rivera

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
Chita Rivera

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
Chita Rivera

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
Chita Rivera

I'm an old-fashioned girl.
Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
Chita Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
Chita Rivera


It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Chita Rivera

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
Chita Rivera

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
Chita Rivera

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
Chita Rivera

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification.
Chita Rivera

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
Chita Rivera

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
Chita Rivera