Top 55 Debbie Reynolds Quotes

Everyone I dated was gay.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

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

Gene Kelly was hard on me, but I think he had to be.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

I got to sing a wonderful song called ‘I Ain’t Down Yet.’ Well, I ain’t.

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

I’ve always been a good mother, but I’ve always been in show business, and I’ve been on stage, and I don’t bake cookies and I don’t stay home.

I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.

It’s not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

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

I’m always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in ‘The Pleasure of His Company.’ They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, ‘Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I’m just leaving.’

Liberace – or Lee, as us friends called him – was great. He was gay, you know.

‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

I’m very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his ‘admiration’ of the ladies, but I didn’t expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn’t sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.

I like being a Girl Scout.

If your husband’s going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home – my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us – on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

I had a normal life; we didn’t meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.

I don’t have an agent – I have the William Morris Agency.

We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn’t win, they gave you a free blouse.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

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 is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you’re never able to love or like anybody.

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

The truth is I loved an audience.

Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.

It’s very hard when your child doesn’t want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.

I just think my life’s been really blessed, because being in show business, I’ve met wonderful people, and I’ve traveled all over the world.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on ‘Molly Brown.’

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.

I want happiness for my daughter – I want Carrie to be happy.

You don’t have to be angry and become an ugly person.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it’s hard for me to remember every place I play.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.

I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I’m gone?

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 me in a museum.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds’ daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia’s mother!