You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.
Debbie Reynolds
I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
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.
Everyone I dated was gay.
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.
The only way to make it through life is to fight.
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
If your husband's going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.
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.
Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.
Music will bring you through... It brought me through.
People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
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 have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.
'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.
Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.
We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
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.
My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.
You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.
Manic depressive is a disease.
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.
I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.
Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.
I went to the school of hard knocks.
Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
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 spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
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'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.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
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 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.
We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.
Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.
Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.
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.
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
