Debbie Reynolds Quotes
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
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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.
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Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.
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All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'
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We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.
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That's my business, show business.
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I would never not work.
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Manic depressive is a disease.
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My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.
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I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
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Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.
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Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.
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I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
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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.
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I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.
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I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.
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Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
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Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.
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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.
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Gene Kelly was hard on me, but I think he had to be.
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I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.
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I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?
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I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
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It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.
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I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.