All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands. 
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. 
I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters. 
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. 
Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me. 
I'm an afternoon person. 
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire. 
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? 
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. 
To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion. 
Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing! 
When you're in love you're living, you matter. 
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them. 
When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value. 