I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person… always have been. I have to say that it’s important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk – even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

C’mon, we’re actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don’t like to be rejected.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone’s going to catch you.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one’s personal attitude… you can’t instill that in anyone.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It’s not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

I love playing people who don’t have a sense of humor for instance, there’s nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

I’m 81 and I’m in the prime of my life.

I’m 85, and I’m still a sexual being, or a sensual being.

I’m an actress, and I am Latina.

I’m one of the most joyous people I’ve ever met.

I’m so happy. I’m one of the happiest people I know. I truly am.

Is there a grandmother that isn’t spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

Retirement is just not in my DNA.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn’t say that… I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It’s just such a company town! You can’t go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five… It’s all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

Puerto Ricans are many colors – we are Spanish, we’re French, we’re Thai, Indian, we’re almost black, some of us.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news