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

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.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

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

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?

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