Raquel Welch Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 can't fake listening. It shows.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

I think that women should be decorative.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Ive always been a health fanatic.

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