Graciela Daniele Quotations

We're similar in the dynamics of our character, our cultural roots, our focus on family and our personalities. We both love to laugh. We make jokes all the time. We both work very, very hard, but we love and maintain an atmosphere of fun.

She's up there kicking from beginning to end, ... You can't stop her. She's a force of nature. I can't imagine anyone at 20 being able to do what she does in her 70s, especially with the injuries she has suffered. There's something in her spirit, her soul ... a life force that can't be stopped.

Knowing what goes on in a Latin family at mealtimes, ... I wanted to reflect the madness and the warmth and the fun of a Latin family. So, we made this new song.

Bob Fosse told me if you open a musical script and there's more than a page or a page-and-a-half of text, you better tear off the paper there and stick in a number, because that's as long as people want to wait before you show them something,

As theater legends go, they don't get any bigger than Chita,

The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like this woman is sitting on a chair, telling you these fascinating anecdotes in such a natural way that it's as if you were sitting in the living room with her.

not only a great star but truly a force of nature. I'm 65 and when my body hurts or I'm about to complain, just being around her energizes me. She lights firecrackers inside me.