Pin Up Quotes

• I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Girl, Pin Up Girl, Pins

  "The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield". Book by Jessica Hope Jordan, 2009.

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• I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

  Groucho Marx

  Girl, Inspiration, Able

  "Fictional character: Ronald Kornblow". A Night in Casablanca, 1946.

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• There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

  Mira Sorvino

  Girl, America, Personality

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• I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Girl, Night, Looks

  "Personal Style: Joséphine de La Baume". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  May, Boxers, Hell

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• Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Dream, Sex, Father

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• Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

  William Congreve

  Hair, Poetry, Letters

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• I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Liars, Humor

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• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  Olivia Colman

  Beautiful, Sexy, Husband

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• From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

  Joan Collins

  Girl, Years, Boring

  "The actor" by Cath Rapley, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2009.

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• I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

  Cindy Margolis

  Numbers, America, Done

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• There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when I was photographing men and women, to be honest, sometimes I felt like I was a john, especially when I was shooting guys because they - you know - they had to have big erections in the photos.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Men, Years, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

  David Ogilvy

  Feet, Boards, Magazines

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• I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

  Gail Porter

  Missing, Pins

  "Gail Porter interview: I'm always walking around naked.. my little girl hates it!". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 9, 2010.

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just think 'Oh well, that's the pin up guy's an actor like my friend James Mcavoy, who's gorgeous on screen. I'm not that. But at least I don't have to worry about taking precious care of my face because it's my commodity. That's a great freedom. I'm not afraid of being heinous for the sake of a part

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Play, People

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• I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Boys, Pins

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• O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

  William Congreve

  Hate, Writing, Hair

  1700 The Way of the World, act 2, sc.5.

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• The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

  David Icke

  Girl, Sports, Queens

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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