Quotes
"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."
"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction."
'They're not going to get my money to see the junk that's made today' (1983)
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first"
"I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too." - in early 30s.
"When you're happy, you don't count the years."
"Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket."
[on her partnrship with Astaire] "After all, it's not as if we were Abbott and Costello. We did have careers apart from each other."
"The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift."
[on working with Katharine Hepburn] "She is snippy you know, which is a shame. She was never on my side."
"It'd be fun to have a chum around, but it's very hard to have a chum unless you're married to him. And I don't believe in today's concept for living with someone unmarried." - 1987
