Quotes from Rita Hayworth

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

I can't take his genius any more.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.