Quotes from Debbie Reynolds

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.

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 lead such a boring life.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

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 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.

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

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.

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.

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

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 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.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.