Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Debbie Reynolds

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Debbie Reynolds.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Her other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy, The Catered Affair, and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie.

American - Actress | April 1, 1932 - December 28, 2016

Source: Wikipedia

I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.

Debbie Reynolds

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

Debbie Reynolds

If your husband's going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.

Debbie Reynolds

I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

Debbie Reynolds

I like being a Girl Scout.

Debbie Reynolds

'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.

Debbie Reynolds

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

Debbie Reynolds

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.

Debbie Reynolds

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.

Debbie Reynolds

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

Debbie Reynolds

I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

Debbie Reynolds

Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.

Debbie Reynolds

The truth is I loved an audience.

Debbie Reynolds

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Debbie Reynolds

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

Debbie Reynolds

I'm a sucker for a good movie.

Debbie Reynolds

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

Debbie Reynolds

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.

Debbie Reynolds

That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

Debbie Reynolds

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.

Debbie Reynolds

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.

Debbie Reynolds

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Debbie Reynolds

You all know who she is. There's very little she isn't.

Debbie Reynolds

I would never not work.

Debbie Reynolds

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

Debbie Reynolds

Gene Kelly was hard on me, but I think he had to be.

Debbie Reynolds

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Debbie Reynolds

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

Debbie Reynolds

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

Debbie Reynolds

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.

Debbie Reynolds

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Debbie Reynolds

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Debbie Reynolds

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

Debbie Reynolds

That's my business, show business.

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.

Debbie Reynolds

My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.

Debbie Reynolds

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.