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I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country.

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They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

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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.

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I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

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I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

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I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.'

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I auditioned for 'West Side Story' just like everybody else, and I nearly had a heart attack, because I hadn't danced in about - oh, I don't know, about 15 years.

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Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

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I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that - that was before me. There was really nobody out there.

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I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

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Biography

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Type: Actress

Born: December 11th, 1931

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