Raquel Welch - biography

“I wish there were a way to get what you need as an artist without having to appear strident.”

“It’s necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.”

“Just mention Brigitte Bardot to most men and the first thing that pops into their heads is boobs.  Marilyn Monroe and boobs.  Raquel Welch and boobs.  Ridiculous!  Who knows, some day men may come to appreciate, say, the teeth and the lips and the back of the neck as erogenous zones too.  That’s what they are, at least to me.”

“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.”

“I’ve never liked my face.  The left side’s predatory, the right more friendly.”

“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.”

“It’s tough being married to Raquel Welch.”

“Men looked upon me as a challenge to their manhood and thought they had to have a shot.”

“I promised myself never to be photographed nude.  Why should I show all my cards at the beginning of the game - what could I do for an encore?”

“I wish I was the same girl making One Million Years BC - all open, optimistic and confident.  Now I realize why all stars yell and scream about their privacy - you don’t really have any.”

“A sex goddess isn’t a real living thing.  She’s a plastic lady; She’s Superwoman.  No intellect, no emotions, no anything.  Just a man-eater, the dominant woman.  I don’t happen to be any of these things.”

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”

“I don’t know anyone who laughs during orgasm.  Sex is serious.  On the other hand, I’m not saying foreplay is.”

“The mind can also be an erogenous zone.”

“There’s a lot of bad lovers around.”

“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.”

“Latinos are here to stay.  As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.”

“There’s all this hodge-podge that (a) I’m a stupid girl who just happens to be attractive; (b) a film star without being seen in a film; and (c) I connived my way to fame and fortune.”

“You can’t fake listening.  It shows.”

Raquel Welch has appeared in the following films:
Roustabout (1964)
Do Not Disturb (1965)
A Swingin’ Summer (1965)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Sex Quartet (1966)
Spara forte, più forte, non capisco (1966)
Think Twentieth (1967)
Bedazzled (1967)
Fathom (1967)
Bandolero! (1968)
Lady in Cement (1968)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
100 Rifles (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Flareup (1969)
The Beloved (1970)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
Bluebeard (1972)
Fuzz (1972)
The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Wild Party (1975)
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
Crossed Swords (1977)
L’Animal (1977)
Folle d’elle (1998)
Chairman of the Board (1998)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Forget About It (2006)