Debbie Reynolds

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

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.

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.

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

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

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.

That's my business, show business.

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.

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

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.

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