Raquel Welch Quotes

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

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.

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

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

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?

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

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.

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 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.

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 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 give me that.. That was all wrong.

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

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

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 think that women should be decorative.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

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

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.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

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.

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

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

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

I find clothes so constricting!

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 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.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

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

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.

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 fitness buff as I am.

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

You can't fake listening. It shows.