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?

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

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.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.