Lana Turner Quotes

• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  Lana Turner

  Sex, Men, Gentleman

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• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  Lana Turner

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

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• If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

  Lana Turner

  Party, Dumb, Hollywood

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• How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

  Lana Turner

  Doe, Moonlight, Sunlight

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  Lana Turner

  Girl, Men, Saint

  "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles". Book by Jon Lewis, April 19, 2017.

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• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  Lana Turner

  Movie, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

  Lana Turner

  Children, Husband, Way

  "Hollywood's Second Sex: The Treatment of Women in the Film Industry, 1900-1999". Book by Aubrey Malone, April 30, 2015.

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• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  Lana Turner

  Caught, Earrings, Loses

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• Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

  Lana Turner

  Healthy, Forests

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• All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

  Lana Turner

  Men, Different, Results

  "Fictional character: Constance MacKenzie". "Peyton Place", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

  Lana Turner

  Imitation Of Life, Wells

  "Fictional character: Lora Meredith". "Imitation of Life", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• My life has been a series of emergencies.

  Lana Turner

  Emergencies, Has Beens, Series

  "The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others". Book by Jane Ellen Wayne, 2003.

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• The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

  Lana Turner

  Mother, Play, Clothes

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• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  Lana Turner

  Sick, Gullible, Damn

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• Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

  Lana Turner

  Fame, Notoriety, One Thing

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• Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

  Lana Turner

  Humor, Has Beens, Reserved

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• I've always loved a challenge.

  Lana Turner

  Challenges

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

  Lana Turner

  Disease, Trash

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

  Lana Turner

  Baby, Husband, Seven

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

  Lana Turner

  Sex, Truth, Mean

  Life Magazine, Volume 7, Issues 1-6 (p. 24), 1984.

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