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

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

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?

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

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

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.