I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.

- Cush Jumbo

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

- Ed Sheeran

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

- Graham Coxon

I've always modeled myself after Ginger.

- Marla Maples

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

- Samantha Bond

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

- Sherwood Schwartz