along the way, she has picked up , aoscar, a tony, two emmys grammy and was awarded the national medal of honor. she is the first and only latina to do all of that. she has written a frank and fascinating memoir about her remarkable life. i cannot resist opening up this conversation without showing a clip of you in "west side story ." >> ♪ always the hurricanes blowing always the population growing and the money owing and the sunlight streaming i like the islands ♪ when you see these clips these years later, do you think what? >> it takes me back to a time when i finally got a chance to do what i was able to do for years before that. i got to play a real hispanic person. [laughter] , but i got tow do nothing but that. finally, along came this wonderful role. -- i want tooman say balls, but i will say ovaries. it was nothing but joy. i would love to do it again. it is a great film. obviously, the dialogue is very dated, but it is a treasure. tavis: you wanted this and you got it. what did you have to go through to get the part? >> i had to audition. how difficult or easy was it to land