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Top 35 Rita Hayworth Quotes About Life (GILDA)

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Top 15 Most Famous Rita Hayworth Quotes (BEST)

“Life is a bowl of cherries, some cherries are rotten, while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good!”

Rita Hayworth
A woman is not complete until she's married. Then she's finished.
A woman is not complete until she’s married. Then she’s finished.
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.
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.
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda and woke up with me.
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda and woke up with me.
Every man wants to marry a woman who cooks like his mother, and is good in bed like his father.
Every man wants to marry a woman who cooks like his mother, and is good in bed like his father.
I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
When you're in love you're living, you matter.
When you’re in love you’re living, you matter.
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.
After all, a girl is, well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.
After all, a girl is, well, a girl. It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
Old age – that’s when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
Whatever you write about me, don’t make it sad.
I've been through it all, baby. I'm mother courage.
I’ve been through it all, baby. I’m mother courage.
My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just a pretty face.
My whole life I’ve been trying to prove I’m not just a pretty face.

4 Inspirational Rita Hayworth Quotes About Life

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that’s part of life and it has its own value.
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
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.
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.
I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.
I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.

8 Rita Hayworth Quotes on Acting and Dancing

“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.”

Rita Hayworth
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.
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
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?
Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department
Who wouldn’t prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?
From the time I was three and a half, as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
From the time I was three and a half, as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.
Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

8 Rita Hayworth Quotes that Will Make You Think

“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.”

Rita Hayworth
I can't take his genius any more.
I can’t take his genius any more.
Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.
Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.
To yesterday's companionship and tomorrow's reunion.
To yesterday’s companionship and tomorrow’s reunion.
I'm an afternoon person.
I’m an afternoon person.
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.
Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I’m rich. Well, I’m not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

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