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I was always typecast as a Latina.

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You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

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Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

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When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, 'Don't run. It's not dignified.'

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I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

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Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

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I just love details; I love trying to make the reader smell what I was smelling at the time and see what I was seeing. Textures, too - all that kind of stuff is probably my strong suit as far as my writing goes, I would say.

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I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.

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The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.

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I am a woman of the moment.

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Biography

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Type: Actress

Born: December 11th, 1931

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