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.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

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 know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

My name is Raquel Welch. I am here for visual effects, and I have two of them.

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

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.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.