Debbie Reynolds Quotes
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I lead such a boring life.
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I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.
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It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.
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I just keep traveling and doing live shows.
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The only way you learn is by failure.
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I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
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I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
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Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.
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If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.
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Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.
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I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.
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Every secret gets known to the world.
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I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.
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I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.
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It's fun to get back to acting.
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Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.
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I don't have to retire to be happy.
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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 like gossip now.
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I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.
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As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.
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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.
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I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.
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I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.
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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
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I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.
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Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.
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I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.
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I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].
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I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.
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I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.
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