Carmen García: I knew you would be a nuisance. I said it! You and your tiresome regrets. And your weeping about something that's already over and done with. Take your payo conscience and make some woman a present of it. I tell you I'm sick of it!
Don José Lizarabengoa: It'd be well if you borrowed some of my conscience because you have none of your own.
Carmen García: You wouldn't love me nearly so much if I had a conscience, Joseíto.
Don José Lizarabengoa: [Sarcastically] That's a wonderful excuse. To say, "I'm a Gypsy and I don't know right from wrong."
Carmen García: [She kisses him] I don't know, Joseíto. Tell me. What is right? What is wrong?
[She kisses him again]
Carmen García: Is that wrong, little soldier?


--Rita Hayworth (as Carmen) in The Loves of Carmen

Carmen García: We all have to die, and I can't think of a nicer way than to be killed for love.


--Rita Hayworth (as Carmen) in The Loves of Carmen

Carmen García: What is it? What do you see there that makes you look like that?
[She looks at the tarot cards]
Carmen García: That isn't my fortune.
Old Crone: The fat's in the fire, all right. Just as I said.
Carmen García: That isn't my fortune, I tell you. I didn't cut the cards.
[Carmen swats them off the table]
Carmen García: Anyway, I don't believe in cards. I never have. As if you could see in those stupid cards that death was walking my way. We all have to die. And I can't think of a nicer way than to be killed by love.


--Rita Hayworth (as Carmen) in The Loves of Carmen

Carmen García: You're a nice boy but I don't love you. I don't love anybody. I never in my life loved anybody. And you're just the sort of big stupid who falls in love in return for a kiss. And then makes a nuisance of himself.
[She opens a back door]
Carmen García: You can go out this back way.
[Don Jose stands there confused]
Carmen García: Get out. Have you lost your hearing? I said go home!
Don José Lizarabengoa: But why?
Carmen García: Because... Because I'm afraid that... that someday you will be very cruel.


--Rita Hayworth (as Carmen) in The Loves of Carmen

Elsa Bannister: I told you, you know nothing about wickedness.


--Rita Hayworth (as Elsa Bannister) in The Lady from Shanghai

Gilda: [to Johnny] You haven't been around lately. I thought maybe you were an amnesia victim or something.


--Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda

Gilda: I can never get a zipper to close. Maybe that stands for something, what do you think?


--Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda

Gilda: I've got some news for you, Johnny. I'm going to do exactly what I please, when I please. I was true to one man once, hmmm
[looking despiseful at Johnny]
Gilda: and look what happened.


--Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda

Gilda: If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me "The Bar Nothing".


--Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda

Gilda: Would it interest you to know how much I hate you, Johnny?
Johnny Farrell: Very much.
Gilda: I hate you so much that I would destroy myself to take you down with me.


--Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda