Quotes About Rita Hayworth

#1. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

Grace Jones

#2. I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

Jennifer Lopez

#3. I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Cary Grant

#4. I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier.

Grace Kelly

#5. In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Steven Weber

#6. As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Dita Von Teese

#7. Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.

Carly Steel

#8. Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place.

Charles Simic

#9. She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.

Gail Levin

#10. I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

Kim Novak

#11. I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

Jennifer Lopez

#12. Rita Hayworth in Gilda ... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.

Donna Mills

#13. I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

Robert Osborne

#14. It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.

Yasmine Bleeth

#15. Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign.

Carmen Electra

#16. Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

Rita Hayworth

#17. I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

Rita Hayworth

#18. I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

Rita Hayworth

#19. Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

Rita Hayworth

#20. Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

Rita Hayworth

#21. From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

Rita Hayworth

#22. Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

Rita Hayworth

#23. I'm an afternoon person.

Rita Hayworth

#24. Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Rita Hayworth

#25. I can't take his genius any more.

Rita Hayworth

#26. What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

Rita Hayworth

#27. Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 - that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

Rita Hayworth

#28. I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Rita Hayworth

#29. After all, a girl is ... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

Rita Hayworth

#30. Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

Rita Hayworth

#31. Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing!

Rita Hayworth

#32. To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Rita Hayworth

#33. Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

Rita Hayworth

#34. oh shit it's shit

Stephen King

#35. Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Rita Hayworth

#36. We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

#37. I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

Rita Hayworth

#38. No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

Rita Hayworth

#39. Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda ... and woke up with me.

Rita Hayworth

#40. When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Rita Hayworth

#41. Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

Rita Hayworth

#42. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Rita Hayworth

#43. I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.

Rita Hayworth

#44. When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

Rita Hayworth