All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

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

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

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.

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

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.