Rita Hayworth Quotes
"Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me."
"I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much."
When asked what had held up her dress in
Gilda, she replied, "Two things."
"I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance".
Reporter: "What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror after waking up in the morning?" Rita Hayworth: "Darling, I don't wake up till the afternoon." (1974)
"All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved."
"What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed."
"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes."
"The fun of acting is to become someone else."
"Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing!"
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I'm attracted to mean personalities.
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.
"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."
(Early in her career about husband Eddie Judson) "I owe everything to Ed. I could never have made the grade in Hollywood without him. I was just too backward. My whole career was his idea."
