Debbie Reynolds Quotes
Actress
Gene Kelly was hard on me, but I think he had to be.
I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.
'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
I like being a Girl Scout.
I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
The only way to make it through life is to fight.
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.
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.
I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.
I'm a sucker for a good movie.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.
If your husband's going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
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.
You all know who she is. There's very little she isn't.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.
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.'
Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.
I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.
When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.
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.
We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
Music will bring you through... It brought me through.
Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.
We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.
I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
'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.
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.
I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?
I never thought I would live this long.
My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.
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.
I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.
It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.
I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
I went to the school of hard knocks.
I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.
It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.
I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.
My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.
You have to believe in yourself.
Manic depressive is a disease.
We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'
If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.
It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.
Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.
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.
I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.
My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.
I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.
Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.
As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.
My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.
I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.
I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.
You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.
I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.
People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.
The truth is I loved an audience.
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.
All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'
I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.
My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.
I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.
I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.
That's my business, show business.
I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.
Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.
I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.
Everyone I dated was gay.
Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
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.
Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.
So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.