She recently won a Peabody award to add to her Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony collection — making her the first Latina to achieve PEGOT status. Get to know Rita Moreno.
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00:00I was told you had one minute and I thought, wait a minute, I'm a Puerto Rican, I can't
00:23even say hello in one minute.
00:47This is America, where everybody has roots almost somewhere else.
01:47I like the island, Manhattan, I know you do.
02:14You know, I'm lucky because I have so many careers.
02:40I have a cabaret act, I do concerts, I do television, I do theater, a lot of actors
02:48don't have those advantages because they just do one thing.
03:11I will teach dance again.
03:13It is a gift that I have withheld from the world far too long.
03:30It's hard to understand what people are going through, I don't think we can possibly put
03:36ourselves in their shoes.
03:58The secret to me, because a lot of people say to me, well, what's your secret?
04:02It's about persevering.