![]() ![]() “Self-respect is one of the most difficult things to achieve when you’ve lived without it for years, as I did,” she said. In Moreno's cover interview for ELLE, she explained how it has taken her decades to earn the confidence she now exudes. Along the way, I have explored luggage, the kids department-and believe me, it has been stuck in the basement.way more than once. “My career did not jump on an express elevator right here all the way to the top. That's why they are called dreams,” she said. She finally sealed her message with a poetic piece of wisdom. To further enchant the crowd, she sang a few crystal-clear notes from “Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)” by Frank Sinatra: “Dream, when you're feeling blue/Dream, that's the thing to do/Just watch the smoke rings rise in the air/You'll find your share of memories there.” “The way my career was going, I had lots of free time, and I would come in here-the May Company-and imagine myself in the latest fashions of somebody special, and then I would visit my favorite perfumer,” the Puerto Rico-born actress said. She described her early years trying to carve out a niche in a cut-throat industry, one especially unkind to women who look like her. “Tonight my body is right here on top of this monument to film, but my memory is down the street, right down there at street level.back when this building was the flagship May Company department store. ![]() “It's astonishing-I mean, who knew that you can be in two places at the same time?” she said. After the audience had settled down, Moreno turned her thoughts toward the past, when Hollywood looked-and felt-considerably different than it does today. ![]()
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