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

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

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

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

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

"The fun of acting is to become someone else."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."