“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior.

I think that women should be decorative.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

I’ve always been a health fanatic.

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

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

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

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

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

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.