From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
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? — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
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… — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
