I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

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

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

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.

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

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