We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'Collection: Movies
'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.
In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
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.
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 had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
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.
Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.
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.'
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.
I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.
We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
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.
Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.