Rita Hayworth Quotes

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.

I can't take his genius any more.

I'm an afternoon person.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.