If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

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."

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.