Top 33 Chita Rivera Quotes

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

I’d like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work.

It’s communication – that’s what theatre is all about.

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

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

I’m an old-fashioned girl.

Southern California, they have been amazing. They’re totally with us.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It’s beautiful! Phenomenal!

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you’re winning them over.

Outside of my own home, England is my second home.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Mother never said to me, ‘Stay out of trouble.’ She didn’t have to!

I’ve never been bored in live theater.

I’m not comfortable with just me, me, me. That’s boring.

Somebody told me once I wasn’t Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

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

I have a very young outlook.

Absolutely, I’ll always be a dancer.

Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separation. But both have equal importance.

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

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

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

You really never know what the next day brings you.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It’s very European.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

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

You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination – it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.

I’ve always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn’t have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.

I’ve played American, Italian, Greek, French. I’ve been really lucky that way.

‘Spiderwoman’ was wonderful. I think that show is a very important piece of theatre.