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

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

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

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

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

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

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?