Raquel Welch Net Worth

Raquel Welch's Quotes

• Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. The mind is an erogenous zone.
• [In 1973] I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
• Americans have always had sex symbols. It'a time-honored tradition and I'm flattered to have been one. But it's hard to have a long, fruitful career once you've been stereotyped that way. That's why I'm proud to say I've endured.
• [on Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There's no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

Interesting Facts about Raquel Welch

1. Graduated from La Jolla High School, La Jolla, California at age 16. [June 1957]
2. Miss Fairest of the Fair, San Diego, Ca. [1957]
3. Mother of Damon Welch and Tahnee Welch.
4. Born at 2:04pm-CDT.
5. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#18). [1995]
6. Of Spanish descent through her Bolivia-born father's side. (Her father, Armando Carlos Tejada-Urquizo, was only Bolivian via nationality, but his ethnicity was Spaniard, from a long lineage of Europeans from Spain.).
7. Was considered for the lead in Barbarella (1968) - that eventually went to Jane Fonda.
8. Estranged husband Richie Palmer owns the Mulberry Street Pizzeria in Beverly Hills.
9. She was fired from Cannery Row (1982) and replaced by Debra Winger. She then sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and won a $10 million judgment.
10. Among her many beauty contest titles were "Miss Photogenic", "Miss Contour" and "Miss Maid of California" - all won while she was in her teens.
11. Broke her wrist in a Los Angeles car crash. [August 2003]
12. Mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s television series The Fall Guy (1981).
13. Had a notorious backstage feud with the indomitable Mae West on the set of Myra Breckinridge (1970).
14. Auditioned for the role of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island (1964).
15. Has a stepson, Richie Palmer Jr., born 1989.
16. Worked as a cocktail waitress, TV weather girl and fashion model before acting.
17. Her third ex-husband, André Weinfeld, had a property on the private island of Mustique.
18. Dated football player Joe Namath; Paramount executive Robert Evans; actors Warren Beatty, Richard Burton and Sean Connery; musicians Bob Dylan and Alice Cooper; and costume designers Bob Moore Jr. and Ron Talsky.
19. Son Damon Welch married the daughter of England and Yorkshire cricket legend Fred Trueman.
20. She was one of the pin-ups on the cell in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (The other two were Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe).