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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.
[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.
I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.
We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.
I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.
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 don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
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 wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.
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.
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
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.
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.
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.
My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.
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'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.
You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either.
Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.
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.
Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.
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.
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.
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'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.
I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'
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.
I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.
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.
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.
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.
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.