Debbie Reynolds famous quotes

03-24-2025

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Receiving #Wells
Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Rain #Two #Childbirth
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Character #Environmental #Wanted
I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Divorce #Dark #Thinking
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Missing #Kind #Understood
I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Light #Doors #Twenties
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Blessing #Long #Boredom
Never give power of attorney.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Giving #Advice #Attorney
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.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Clothes #Filth #Opinion
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.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Daughter #Brother #Nice
The only way you learn is by failure.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Way
I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Thinking #Funeral #Littles
I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Hard Work #Average #Car
You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Be Good #Ifs
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.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Dancer #Singing #Acting
Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#People #Dancing #Together
I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Stuff #Triggers #Shows
We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Stars #Memories #Phones
Every secret gets known to the world.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Secret #World #Known
Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Running #World #Way
I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Matter #Reason Why #Comedy
That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Reading #Doe #Good Reading
As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Get Better #Talent #Hopefully
Live is exciting, live is real, the people are there.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Real #People #Exciting
I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Home #People #Want
If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Years #Musical #Doe
I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Sorry #Thinking #People

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