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 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.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

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

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

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