From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you’re nothing!
I can’t take his genius any more.
Old age – that’s when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
Who wouldn’t prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.
I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.
Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I’d be happy. It’s so empty. It’s never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know – to be loved.
Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.
When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that’s part of life and it has its own value.
Whatever you write about me, don’t make it sad.
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.
Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.
I’m an afternoon person.
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 – that was my ‘summer camp.’ How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I’m rich. Well, I’m not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.
When you’re in love you’re living, you matter.