Debbie Reynolds

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

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.

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.

I would never not work.

It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.