Rita Hayworth Quotes

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

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.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

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?

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

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.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

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 - to be loved.

I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

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.

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

I can't take his genius any more.

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.