Rosie Perez quotes
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“Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.”
-- Rosie PerezSource : "'Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.' —Rosie Perez" by Nelson George, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2014.
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“Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.”
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“Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.”
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“If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.”
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“If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.”
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“I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.”
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“You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.”
-- Rosie PerezSource : "Rosie Perez' U.S.-Puerto Rico Documentary". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. April 27, 2006.
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“You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.”
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“You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.”
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“I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.”
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“As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.”
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“I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.”
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“Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.”
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“I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.”
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“In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it”
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“In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.”
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“I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?”
-- Rosie PerezSource : "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.
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“As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.”
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“The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?”
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“I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.”
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“I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.”
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“I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.”
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“I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.”
-- Rosie Perez
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