I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

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.

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

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

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

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.