Quotes by Raquel Welch

“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.”

“Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.”

“My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitne...”

“You can't fake listening. It shows.”

“I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to...”

“Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.”

“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...”

“I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.”

“Whatever my film work was, it was a departure from the sex symbol previously, who was blonde and more docile than the characters I portrayed as a sex symbol…I think it was a different role for wome...”

“A lot of times I would play a lot of roles a man would play…In One Million Years B.C.—yes, the costume was revealing. But I was outdoors all the time, I was fighting to survive, there was a girlfig...”

“It’s not that I wanted to go into the male mentality, but into the duality. There’s a duality in every man and every woman. And when you have a homosexual man who’s a movie critic and he wants to m...”

“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.”

“I wanted a storybook life, to be Rapunzel and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, all the beautiful ladies that wonderful men came along on their big white horses and dragged away. Which is not remarka...”

“In high school I was Rocky, then after the equipment arrived, Hotrocks.”

“You have to work with people, whatever assholes they might be.”

“The mind is an erogenous zone.”

“I am really fed up doing second-rate roles in mediocre films and working against the prejudice that comes with my image. I have studied all my life. I am not trying to become an actress, I am an ar...”