Rita Hayworth movie quotes

“I hate you so much that I would destroy myself to take you down with me.”

Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: I was taught to think about love in Chinese.
- Michael O'Hara: The way a Frenchman thinks about laughter in French?
- Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: The Chinese say, it is difficult for love to last long; therefore, one who loves passionately is cured of love - in the end.
- Michael O'Hara: Well, that's a hard...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister
Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara

“Human nature is eternal; therefore, one who follows his nature, keeps his original nature - in the end.”
Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister

“Everything is bad, Michael. Everything. You can't escape it or fight it. You've got to get along with it! Deal with it. Make terms.”
Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister

“Boys have the darnedest way of growing up, Ballin. Almost when you're not looking.”
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Maria: Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent, which in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merrymaking. Then, come the fasting and the penance.
- Gilda: In other words, make hay while the sun shines.
- Maria: You have a strange language, little one.
- Gilda: Oh, I mean, three days of sowing wild oats, then...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosa Rey - Maria
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Gilda: This vacuum I'm living in, mind giving me a reason?
- Johnny Farrell: Not at all. You've had such a full life up to now; I thought a little peace and quiet would do you good. Give you time to think!
- Gilda: Think about what?
- Johnny Farrell: Would it be too corny to say: your sins.
- Gilda: Yes, it would.
- Johnny Farrell: Well,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rita Hayworth - Gilda
Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell

“- Gilda: It all looks - lonely, doesn't it?
- Uncle Pio: All bad things end up lonely, little one.
- Gilda: I know that, don't I. Keep your silly epigrams to yourself, can't you.”
Steven Geray - Uncle Pio
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“They said that being married to Johnny Farrell was very like driving a car with no brakes.”
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Johnny Farrell: From now on, you go anywhere you please, with anyone you please. But, I'm gonna take you there and I'm gonna pick you up and bring you home. Get that? Exactly the way I'd - take and pick up his laundry.
- Gilda: Shame on you, Johnny. Any psychiatrist would tell you that your thought associations are very revealing.”
Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“I always say there's something about Latin men. For one thing, they can dance. For another thing - what's your telephone number?”
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Johnny Farrell: Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?
- Gilda: What I want to know is, does it bother you?”
Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Ballin Mundson: Now then, before we were interrupted, I believe we were about to drink a toast. So: disaster to the wench who did wrong by our Johnny. No, Gilda? You won't drink to that?
- Gilda: Why not? Disaster to the wench!”
George Macready - Ballin Mundson
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Virginia Brush: That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.
- Amy Lind: For goodness sakes, what did we come here for if not to be trifled with?”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“I'll remember this night for a long time. When things don't seem so good, I'll remember Mr. Gibbons, and Mr. Engle... and you.”

Rita Hayworth - Nina Barona

“- Virginia Brush: Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.
- Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutes ago when I passed Fisher's drug store.
- Virginia Brush: He followed you here?
- Amy Lind: No. I followed him.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“- Virginia Brush: She was right too.
- Biff Grimes: If a man can't get liberties here, where can he?”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
James Cagney - Biff Grimes

“- Nina Barona: I'm a little better than you think, Mr. O'Brien.
- Bill O'Brien: That wouldn't be hard.”
Rita Hayworth - Nina Barona
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Bill O'Brien

“- Virginia Brush: If there's something in your eye, Amy, I'll help you get it out.
- Amy Lind: There's nothing in my eye, I just plain and simple winked at him that's all.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“- Virginia Brush: Why can't you be nice to me once in a while?
- Hugo Barnstead: I've been thinking about it. Then I remember we're married, so why bother?”
Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Jack Carson - Hugo Barnstead

“- Amy Lind: I'm proud of my uniform. It's a sign to the men that women not only have the same right to work as the men, but that in the eyes...
- Virginia Brush: Ooh hush, Amy. You're not at a suffragette meeting now!”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind
Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush