Quotes from Debbie Reynolds

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.

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

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

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

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.

'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 miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

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.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

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.

I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.

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

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.