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.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.

Ive always been a health fanatic.

I think that women should be decorative.

Not 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.