Raquel Welch quotes:

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 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.

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

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 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'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it's open season on her.

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

Im the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like its open season on her.

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.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

Weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

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

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

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.

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

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 when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

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

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.

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

My name is Raquel Welch. I am here for visual effects, and I have two of them.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

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 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 words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

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.

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

You can't fake listening. It shows.

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

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

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 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.

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

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

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!'

As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

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.

I think that women should be decorative.

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.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.

Ive always been a health fanatic.

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

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

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

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