I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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