Rita Hayworth Quotes & Sayings

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire. — Rita Hayworth

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. — Rita Hayworth

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them. — Rita Hayworth

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress. — Rita Hayworth

I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much. — Rita Hayworth

I'm an afternoon person. — Rita Hayworth

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes. — Rita Hayworth

I can't take his genius any more. — Rita Hayworth

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me. — Rita Hayworth

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion. — Rita Hayworth

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

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

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed. — Rita Hayworth

Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing! — Rita Hayworth

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else. — Rita Hayworth

When you're in love you're living, you matter. — Rita Hayworth

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. — Rita Hayworth

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

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me. — Rita Hayworth

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. — Rita Hayworth

After all, a girl is ... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it. — Rita Hayworth

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda ... and woke up with me. — Rita Hayworth

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H. — Rita Hayworth

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. — Rita Hayworth

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. — Rita Hayworth

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? — Rita Hayworth

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities. — Rita Hayworth

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved. — Rita Hayworth