"I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous Mom will give me a good review if nobody else does."
"When you're happy, you don't count the years."
"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tappy wildly
inside her for months."
"The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun,
joy and happiness. This is my gift." (with Groucho Marx)
"They're not going to get my money to see the junk that's made today." (1983)
"I`m most grateful to have had that joyous time in motion pictures. It really was a Golden Age of Hollywood. Pictures were talking, they were singing, they were coloring. It was beginning to blossom out: bud and blossom were both present."
"I believe in living each day as it comes, to the best of my ability. When it`s done, I put it away, remembering that there will be a tomorrow to take it`s place. If I have any philosophy, that`s it. To me it`s not a fatalistic attitude."
"In everything that I do I learn and try to put it to use. I have learned to go through life not into it. It`s like a boat. You mustn't let the water in or you`re sunk. Of course, I`ve made mistakes and I have had failures, but I do not dwell on them because people don`t care about garbage. When I make a mistake it`s like a bad leaf on a lettuce - I throw it out into the waste basket."
"I adore the man. I always have adored him. It was the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me, being teamed with Fred: he was everything a little starry-eyed girl from a small town ever dreamed of." - on Fred Astaire
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
"You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. You know, there`s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It`s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen."
"The 30s were such a pretty time. I know it was a bad time for an awful lot of people, but not for me. I remember the whole atmosphere, the ambiance of the 30s with a glow because success was knocking at my door. I got to California in `32, just in time to go Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), where I sang `Were In the Money`. It was a whole new life for me. I was excited about it. It was happy and beautiful and gay and interesting. I was surrounded by marvelous people, all the top people of our industry."
"When two people love each other, they don`t look at each other, they look in the same direction." (with George Brent)
GINGER ROGERS. Born July 16, 1911. Died April 25, 1995
Thanks for posting these wonderful photos and quotes. She said some very true words. JK
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