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

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

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

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

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

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

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