Top 35 Raquel Welch Quotes

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

I was lucky that one of my first movies, ‘One Million Years B.C.’ was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

I’m far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior.

I have a very, very good life. I’m grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.

The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It’s a kind of character I play. It’s part of me, but not the whole me.

I think it’d be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn’t have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

There’s a duality in every man and every woman.

I’m a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image – this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts – only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

I don’t feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I’m ‘Oh, poor me.’ I’m not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I’m nothing.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do – how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen ‘The Films of Raquel Welch.’ It shows a lot of a variety in what they’ve chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It’s where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

I’m the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it’s open season on her.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn’t really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.

‘My self-esteem,’ ‘my self-this,’ ‘my self-that.’ Believe me, I’ve been there – I’m an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, ‘I have to take my mind off myself!’

I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep… There was an impact that was made, but it wasn’t the usual.

I couldn’t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

I’m not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men’s domain, and we try to do them like men’s. I’m a prude – I guess you can tell that – but I think, ‘Why would you do that?’

My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.

Oh I had crushes on all my leading men, I think. Oh, you know who I really had fun with? In this movie ‘Mother, Jugs & Speed,’ I really liked working with Harvey Keitel.

I’ve always been a health fanatic.

People used to come knocking on my door saying, ‘Your trouble is that you’re a sex symbol who doesn’t do enough sexy things.’ I’d say to myself, ‘You think that if you pressure me I’ll fold.’ But if I did it, all it would mean is that I sold out.

I knew my mother was – well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it – white bread, shall we say?