27 Kickass Quotes By Rita Hayworth That Prove She Was A Born Rebel
A pin-up girl for military servicemen and a beauty icon for women, Rita Hayworth was actually a self-confessed shy girl. In an interview with Louella Parsons, she is known to have said, "I naturally am very shy ... and I suffer from an inferiority complex." At another time, she unhesitatingly said, “All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved”. Indeed, her quotes reveal that her actual personality is an antithesis of her screen image. Let us now look into some of her quotes in which, she had not only revealed herself, but had also talked about her early years and her career, about her faith in destiny, her views on beauty and marriage etc.
Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.
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.
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
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.
I'm an afternoon person.
Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.
To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.
Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
When you're in love you're living, you matter.
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
I can't take his genius any more.
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.
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.
Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.
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.
