Debbie Reynolds Quotes

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age.

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

I just keep traveling and doing live shows.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

The only way you learn is by failure.

I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'

Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.

I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

It's fun to get back to acting.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald O'Connor outfits and the 'Good Morning, Good Morning' clothes we danced in.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

I always avoid not working.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.

I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either.