Quotes About Lana Turner

#1. As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

Lee Radziwill

#2. I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Frank O'Hara

#3. When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she's Ava Gardner. It's the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I'm never Grace Kelly, I'm always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.

Grace Kelly

#4. For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

Robert Capa

#5. I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.

Teresa Wright

#6. Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).

Erin Moure

#7. Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.

Robert Osborne

#8. I went out with a girl last night. She wasn't a Lana Turner. She was more of a stomach turner.

Henny Youngman

#9. I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

John Steinbeck

#10. I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Frank O'Hara

#12. Well, I'm going up and up and up
and nobody's going to pull me down!

Lana Turner

#13. I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.

Lana Turner

#14. Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

Lana Turner

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

Lana Turner

#16. Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.

Ava Gardner

#17. I've always loved a challenge.

Lana Turner

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

Lana Turner

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

Lana Turner

#20. 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

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

Lana Turner

#22. 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

#23. Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Lana Turner

#24. 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

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

Lana Turner

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

Lana Turner

#27. A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. My life has been a series of emergencies.

Lana Turner

#32. 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