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[on Matar ou Morrer (1952)] I am very proud to make this picture because I look and act like a Mexican--not imitation. Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico, because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

But I am not afraid to play mothers. Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly and I don't remember it long.

But you can't always stay the same. I feel sorry for people who try to, though. One of the most beautiful things in life is to grow old with dignity. Those people--men and women--who clutch their youth, one day they are going to have to admit that they are not young anymore, and what will they do? You have to accept the different phases of your life and find the beauty in each one.

Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.

[1970] All my life I worked for my children; now they're grown and I can live for Katy.

[1970] American women today want too much liberty, that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman he treats her like a pal instead of a woman.

[1952] When I was in school, people would call me "Dorothy Lamour." . . . But I would get mad. I would say no. I don't want people to make comparisons with Miss Dorothy Lamour. I am Katy Jurado, no one else.

[1966] I have a lover. My lover is my career. For many years I hated my career, acting. It took me away from my children. But now it is my sweetheart, my husband, my lover.

Movies will have to change - they just show too much. Sex is supposed to be what people feel and think. If you show it, there's no sex. It's just like women's skirts and see-through dresses. They got shorter and shorter and were so ugly until they came out with the maxi. People get tired of that sort of thing.

[1970] I don't want to die making films like a hero. What's the money for if you don't enjoy it?

[when asked if she preferred Hispanic men] Nationality has nothing to do with being a man. What counts is the way he brushes your hand, the way he looks at you, and the little things he does and says.

[remembering the 1950s] Then men were beautiful - they were real men.