Betty Grable Quotes

#1. I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

Veronica Lake

#2. When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

Grace Slick

#3. I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.

Lynda Resnick

#4. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.

Dorian Corey

#5. For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

Robert Osborne

#6. The pinup girl, Betty Grable, sprayed her bare butt and breasts with hairspray until they were wet. That way the top and bottom of her swimsuit
stayed glued where she wanted. Hairspray inside your high heels works the same way.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. On top of everything else," he said immediately, "we've got 'Wise Child' complexes. We've never really got off the goddam air. Not one of us. We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound. At least I do ... it's impossible for me to keep my mouth shut.

J.D. Salinger

#8. The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.

Betty Grable

#9. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

#10. I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

Betty Grable

#11. There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

#12. I was famous for not being like everybody else. I loved it.

Avi

#13. As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously ... I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

Betty Grable

#14. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

Betty Grable

#15. I don't make people sound stupid. Stupid people make themselves sound stupid when they say stupid things.

Brent Saltzman

#16. I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Betty Grable

#17. The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile

Marty Rubin

#18. I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

#19. Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Donald Trump

#20. You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

Betty Grable

#21. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

#22. The woman's vision is deep and reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman, the heart is her world.

Betty Grable

#23. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke