Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Debbie Reynolds - Page 3

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

I think people want to stay home and run movies with their whole family at home. It become a family hobby instead of going out to the theater, sad to say. But I think it's very good because it reaches millions that would never see these movies.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

I don't have to retire to be happy.

I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

I think men like the boobie shows. Vegas will always be Vegas.

I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

Live is exciting, live is real, the people are there.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

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

I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.

I just keep traveling and doing live shows.

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

I lead such a boring life.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age.

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

Never give power of attorney.

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

I also have a pair of ruby red slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy's gingham dress...and on and on. I saved as much as I could and still do, because people are still interested in it.

I always avoid not working.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.

I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

I never thought about doing men. Never.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.

I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live.

Usually New York has lousy salads.

Do I read her books? Of course.