I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.
From Raquel Welch
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.
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.
My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
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.
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.
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.
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