Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.