- Me Empty? Nobody has seen inside of me.
- What can I do? I can't be ugly.
- Some friends told me that pearls make people cry. The only pearls that have made me cry are false pearls
- [upon being asked her age by a journalist] Look, young lady, I have been very busy living my life and I've not had time to count it.
- I cannot complain about men. I have had tons of them and they have treated me fabulously well. But sometimes I had to hurt them to keep them from subjugating me.
- I believe I can consider the fact that having had portraits made of myself is manifesting a form of certain narcissism, but I cannot help it
- Money is important in life. It does not give you happiness, we all know, but it sure calms the nerves.
- In life, I consider success inferior to celebrity. Success can be attained by many people; celebrity touches you, and supports you through life.
- [on her films] I don't want to make pictures which people are not going to understand. I don't see any point to it. I want people to be entertained.
- [when asked about making more films] I don't need the money. My reward now comes in seeing lines at the box office waiting to see a movie of mine.
- [when asked about her few television appearances] If people see too much of me on that little screen while they're sitting at home, they're not going to go out to see me in a movie. That would take away my life's greatest satisfaction.
- [1949] I know I am beautiful and I cannot deny it because I would be denying a very great favor God did to me.
- [When asked if she was a lesbian] If all men looked like you, then of course I am.
- [referring to Dolores Del Río and her efforts to help children] Let's see, tell me what did this lady Dolores do to have a statue. There is a statue of this lady Dolores in Chapultepec. I talked a lot with her and she told me that she detested children because she never had any. However, she was always surrounded by them because of the image they gave her, but she did nothing.
- [on Dolores Del Río] She was a hypocrite, but she was interesting because she was intelligent.
- People are saying that I was born in Quiriego, which is a small town in Sonora, in the Yaqui Valley, but it is not true. I was not born there; my father was born there. I never lived in Álamos. People say I'm from Sonora, but I could have been born in Vladivostok.
- I don't know the word "diva". I've never understood it. I, diva? Well... they called Maria Callas a diva. I'm a cool woman, a cool diva, possibly.
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