I’m an afternoon person.
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.
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.