American Legends Quotes

“Speaking about her love life, Rita later complained, “All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Rita Hayworth

“I used to have to punch a time clock at Columbia ... Every day of my life. That's what it was like. I was under exclusive contract, like they owned me ... I think he had my dressing room bugged ... He was very possessive of me as a person, he didn't want me to go out with anybody, have any friends. No one can live that way. So I fought him ... You want to know what I think of Harry Cohn? He was a monster.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Rita Hayworth

“Gilda herself was the perfect sexual symbol for the confused, immediately post-war world; she acted as a catalyst for seething emotions but was in the end loyal, a woman who was at different times dangerous and supportive, free-wheeling but ultimately safe”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Rita Hayworth