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“It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.”
“'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.”
“Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.”
“I like being a Girl Scout.”
“I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.”
“I never thought I would live this long.”
“As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.”
“I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.”
“That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.”
“I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.”
“My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.”
“I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.”
“I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.”
“Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.”
“We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.”
“It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.”
“We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.”
“It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.”
“You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.”
“Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.”