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Acting Quote by Debbie Reynolds

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“If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.”

Debbie Reynolds

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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…

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I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

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I'm a sucker for a good movie.

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You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

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I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have…

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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…

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That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

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For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald…

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If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

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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.

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Everyone I dated was gay.

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I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

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