Raquel Welch Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

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

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.

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

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

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.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Trivia

Raquel is one of the bombshells shown in the 1994 movie "The Shawshank Redemption."

Raquel had a notorious backstage feud with the indomitable Mae West on the set of 1970's "Myra Breckinridge."

Measurements: 1967 - 37C- 22? -35? 1980 - 37- 23? -35? 1985 - 37D- 26 -36

Raquel's father is Bolivian.

Raquel was married four times.

Raquel ranked at #18 in Empire magazine's "100 Sexiest Stars In Film History."

Raquel was "Miss Fairest of the Fair" of the San Diego County Fair in 1957.

Raquel attended San Diego State College on a theatre arts scholarship.

Raquel was a weather forecaster for a San Diego television station.

Raquel auditioned for the role of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. She had won the part until show creator Sherwood Schwartz met Dawn Wells.