Rita Moreno

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

My husband and I were very different: I'm spontaneous and emotional; I'm loud - he was exactly the opposite. But you need to be flexible.

Maybe it's my age, but I know I look good, so I'm not going to look like another person suddenly because I don't have makeup on - same hair, same person.

People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.

I am a woman of the moment.

Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff.

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.