Debbie Reynolds Quotations

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

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.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

You all know who she is. There's very little she isn't.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

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.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

We are already in a high state of readiness.

Most of you have probably never heard of me.

I don't intend to speculate on the N-type until I have formal, official confirmation of this.

Our working hypothesis is that any infection in the birds from Surinam is likely to have arisen in the quarantine system, most likely in the facility in Essex where the Surinam birds shared airspace with the birds from Taiwan.

We've got a lot of work going on in investigating the background to this very important development.

We are investigating whether there any links or movements between the two suspect farms and the confirmed infected premises.

Never give power of attorney.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Do I read her books? Of course.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

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.

I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.

I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.

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.

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.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

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.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

I think people want to stay home and run movies with their whole family at home. It become a family hobby instead of going out to the theater, sad to say. But I think it's very good because it reaches millions that would never see these movies.

I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

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.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

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.

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

We've been ballyhooing and trying to talk about the bone density test, because our doctors don't seem to be pushing this enough with the women. And it is vital that the ladies get the knowledge of it themselves and ask for the test themselves,

There is no reason for public health concern.

Confirmation that highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in Turkey and that avian influenza is now also in Romania is of concern. It shows that there is a risk to the U.K. and this is a developing situation, which we are monitoring closely.

This is a sad ending to a lot of hard work and special dreams.

The UK's disease-free status for avian flu is not altered here. We've got an avian flu in quarantine. All of the birds that come in from outside of the European Union come into quarantine and we picked up the avian flu virus in the UK quarantine system.

The closest match is a strain identified in ducks in China earlier this year. It is not so similar to the strains from Romania and Turkey.