Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

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

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

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

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

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?

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