In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
RAQUEL WELCHIn school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
RAQUEL WELCHI was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.
RAQUEL WELCHIt’s necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.
RAQUEL WELCHThere aren’t any hard women, only soft men.
RAQUEL WELCHBeing a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
RAQUEL WELCHYou can’t fake listening. It shows.
RAQUEL WELCHJust as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.
RAQUEL WELCHI COULDN’T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?
RAQUEL WELCHFor a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.
RAQUEL WELCHThe brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it’s a very erogenous zone.
RAQUEL WELCHChange excites me. I am fifty years old. It’s when the mind catches up with the body.
RAQUEL WELCHI 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.
RAQUEL WELCHMy body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
RAQUEL WELCHNot 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.
RAQUEL WELCHAs 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.
RAQUEL WELCHLatinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.
RAQUEL WELCH