Debbie Reynolds

“Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.”

“In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.”

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

“I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.”

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

“I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.”

“I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.”

“I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always...”

“We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'”