Raquel Welch Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You can't fake listening. It shows.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

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.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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