Top 40 Ginger Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.”

— Ginger Rogers

2. “There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels.”

— Ginger Rogers

3. “The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.”

— Ginger Rogers

4. “I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!”

— Ginger Rogers

5. “Looking back at my life’s voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.”

— Ginger Rogers

6. “My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!”

— Ginger Rogers

7. “When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction.”

— Ginger Rogers

8. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

9. “There are no small parts. Only small actors.”

— Ginger Rogers

10. “Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.”

— Ginger Rogers

11. “There’s a verse in the Bible: ‘Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.’ There are young people all over the world who come to me for advice and love. I have all the children I can handle.”

— Ginger Rogers

12. “You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women.”

— Ginger Rogers

13. “If I’ve learned any one lesson from life, it’s this: If you don’t stand for something, you will stand for anything.”

— Ginger Rogers

14. “Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.”

— Ginger Rogers

15. “My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one’s personal life.”

— Ginger Rogers

16. “My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.”

— Ginger Rogers

17. “I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.”

— Ginger Rogers

18. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

19. “You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It’s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.”

— Ginger Rogers

20. “Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we’ve lost and what leisure we’ve sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn’t hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.”

— Ginger Rogers

21. “I believe in dressing for the occasion. There’s a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.”

— Ginger Rogers

22. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

23. “Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.”

— Ginger Rogers

24. “The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.”

— Ginger Rogers

25. “I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.”

— Ginger Rogers

26. “When you’re happy, you don’t count the years.”

— Ginger Rogers

27. “The most important thing in anyone’s life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.”

— Ginger Rogers

28. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

29. “Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.”

— Ginger Rogers

30. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

31. “I don’t care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does...”

— Ginger Rogers

32. “Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.”

— Ginger Rogers

33. “I’ve got enough nerve to do anything!”

— Ginger Rogers

34. “The kids today, they think they can dance with their faces.”

— Ginger Rogers

35. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

36. “During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss’s name.”

— Ginger Rogers

37. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

38. “Gossip is hardly uplifting.”

— Ginger Rogers

39. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers

40. “Even married people have differences of opinion, I’m told.”

— Ginger Rogers

41. “My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.”

— Ginger Rogers

42. “Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don’t have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.”

— Ginger Rogers

43. “While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of ‘Flying Down to Rio’ and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.”

— Ginger Rogers

44. “People are still people no matter how you cut it.”

— Ginger Rogers

45. “My first picture was Kitty Foyle. It was my mother who made all those films with Fred Astaire.”

— Ginger Rogers

46. “At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn’t the only youngster who believed that!”

— Ginger Rogers

47. “I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.”

— Ginger Rogers

48. “One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.”

— Ginger Rogers

49. “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.”

— Ginger Rogers