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I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

Ginger Rogers

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Ginger Rogers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 16
Died: 1995
Died: April 25
Actress
Dancer
Film Actor
Playwright
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Independence
Missouri
Virginia Katherine McMath
Backwards
Heels
High
Girl
Inspirational
Women
Everything

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I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
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I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.
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I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.
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Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.
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Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey in their eyes, my career was his creation.
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I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.
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My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
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I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
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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.
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When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.
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The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
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I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.
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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.
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My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!
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I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.
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Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.
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Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.
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One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.
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I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.
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People are still people no matter how you cut it.
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