The only way to make it through life is to fight.
So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.
When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.
'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.
Music will bring you through... It brought me through.
It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.
We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'
It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.
All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
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 loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
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.
Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
I like being a Girl Scout.
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.
My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.
