Mae West Quotes - Page 8

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• Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

  Mae West

  Men, Careers, Diamond

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Movie, Dream, California

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• It's not what you say, but how you say it!

  Mae West

  Educational

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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  Mae West

  Success, Congratulations, Personality

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

  Mae West

  Saving, Want, Interest

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Gold, Digging

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  Mae West

  Funny, Fashion, Women

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

  Mae West

  Men, Jewels, Immortality

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• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

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• Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

  Mae West

  Men, Lap, Napkins

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• ... love is banality to all outsiders.

  Mae West

  Love Is, Outsiders, Banality

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

  Mae West

  Men, Careers, Way

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

  Mae West

  Bed, Able, Lasts

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• More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

  Mae West

  Fashion, Sex, Fun

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• Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

  Mae West

  Drinking, Sheep, Medicine

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

  Mae West

  Flirting, Men, Uniforms

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• Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

  Mae West

  Love, Week, Five

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Live close, visit often.

  Mae West

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• Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

  Mae West

  Husband, Men, Two

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• Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Fun

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• Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Ems, Diamond

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• Beulah, peel me a grape

  Mae West

  Inspiration, Grapes

  'I'm No Angel' (1933 film)

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• Ice is nice at any price.

  Mae West

  Nice, Ice

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

  Mae West

  Girl, Night, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Marlo Manners". "Sextette", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

  Mae West

  Thinking, Important, Dignity

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