- "I did not want to become an actress at first." -- on her initial reluctance to enter the movies. Filmmaker Cirio H. Santiago prevailed on her, and she went on to become one of Filipino cinema's most beautiful actresses.
- "My parents were very conservative. They wanted me to pick another man. I had plenty of suitors at that time [1940]. One of them was Carlos Fernandez, whose family owned a shipping line." -- on her husband Josefino's persistent courtship of her from 1940-1945. Her parents initially disapproved of Josefino as a would-be son-in-law.
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