Debbie Reynolds

“The truth is I loved an audience.”

“The only way to make it through life is to fight.”

“I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.”

“My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.”

“Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'”

“I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.”

“I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.”

“All of my husbands have robbed me blind.”

“I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.”

“Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.”

“I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.”

“I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.”

“We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.”

“Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.”

“So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.”

“Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.”

“I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.”

“I went to the school of hard knocks.”

“All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'”

“I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.”