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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?