Debbie Reynolds Quotes

I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed.

It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception.

I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

Vegas will always be Vegas.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.

Never give power of attorney.

I think people want to stay home and run movies with their whole family at home. It become a family hobby instead of going out to the theater, sad to say. But I think it's very good because it reaches millions that would never see these movies.

I lead such a boring life.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I also have a pair of ruby red slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy's gingham dress...and on and on. I saved as much as I could and still do, because people are still interested in it.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.

If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live.

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

Live is exciting, live is real, the people are there.

I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.

Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.

I never thought about doing men. Never.

I think men like the boobie shows. Vegas will always be Vegas.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Every secret gets known to the world.