Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Debbie Reynolds - Page 2

It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

Manic depressive is a disease.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

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.'

I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.

I never thought I would live this long.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'

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

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

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

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

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

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

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

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.

You have to believe in yourself.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.

I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

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.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

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.

My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.

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.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

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

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

The only way you learn is by failure.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.

Every secret gets known to the world.