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

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

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

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.

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

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

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.