I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

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

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

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

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?

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.