Rosie Perez Quotes

1. We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one...but we're divorced now.  



2. I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

3. As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons.

4. In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.





5. Certain people who care about me a lot have said: "You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time".

6. I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

7. The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

8. As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

9. They asked me to come in and read for them. My reading was horrible. I laughed through the whole thing. I couldn't get through one scene because the actor they had there was so bad. But then they called and said I got the part. I don't know. It's very strange.

10. I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.






11. Why would someone be so arrogant and smug to think children would only want to learn one language?

12. I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like: "Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying: "I am woman, hear me roar?""

13. I said to her: "I know you think I'm loud because of the press you read, but it's not true. I have the ability to do this - all I need is the opportunity…I want the lead and I want to produce. Here's my resume." I just got tired of being offered this and that - I was like "I'm better than that."

14. You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

15. I'm a lucky gal.

16. It feels fantastic to be part of a classic.

17. The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.





18. Oh, the humor! It's hysterical. And it's smart and goofy at the same time, kind of like a Neil Simon play or a Mel Brooks movie. I read it over and over again, and it changed me in the way of storytelling, seeing things differently.

19. You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

20. In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.



21. In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

22. A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

23. Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.

24. I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

25. I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.


26. I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

27. I get bored in Hollywood.

28. If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.



29. I want to be in shape.



30. I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

31. I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.


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