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

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

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?

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

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.

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