My father was a perfectionist. We had to hop to everything and have marvelous table manners. I could only wear navy blue and gray and white. He wanted me to be interested in tennis and horses just like a little princess, but I couldn`t stand such things.

[about Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There`s no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

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

I couldn`t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

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.

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.

You can`t fake listening. It shows.

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.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

[in 1973] I couldn`t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

If you have physical attractiveness you don`t have to act.

Americans have always had sex symbols. It`a time-honored tradition and I`m flattered to have been one. But it`s hard to have a long, fruitful career once you`ve been stereotyped that way. That`s why I`m proud to say I`ve endured.

The mind is an erogenous zone.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.