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

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?

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.

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

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