Top 100 Quotes About Mae West
#1. JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
Mae West
#2. Mae West: If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar.
Mae West
#3. What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.
Grover Norquist
#4. There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.
Edith Head
#5. Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.
Mickey Rooney
#6. But fathers are soft on daughters. Look how Dad favors Angela. He gave her ten times more. Because she reminded him of Mae West. He was always smiling at her boobs. He wasn't aware of it. Mother and I saw it.
Saul Bellow
#7. Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
Mae West
#8. I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.
Chloe Sevigny
#9. It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.
Joe Gold
#10. Massachusetts has no idea what's coming for them. I bet you'll be the first Mae West they've ever had.
Ruta Sepetys
#11. Mae West: "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Wish I could believe her.
So many possibilities in life and so little time!
Judith Somborac
#12. R.C. Willey is an amazing story. Bill took over the business from his father-in-law in 1954 when sales were about $250,000. From this tiny base, Bill employed Mae West's philosophy: 'It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got.
Mark Gavagan
#14. When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.
Charlotte Church
#15. Mae West, a famous vaudeville actress, once said, "A man's kiss is his signature." I grinned to myself. If that was true, then Ren's signature was the John Hancock of kisses.
Colleen Houck
#16. Man, you're a regular Bonnie Parker."
"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
Jesse found that hysterical. "Did Willie say that?"
"Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt?
Ruta Sepetys
#17. I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
Margaret Mitchell
#18. Mae West had it right - try anything once, do it again if you like it.
Sindra Van Yssel
#19. John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
Christopher Isherwood
#20. Look at you, locked and loaded, like Mae West of the Motor City.
Ruta Sepetys
#21. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
#22. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
#23. I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.
Mae West
#24. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West
#25. Men are not realists - only women are.
Mae West
#26. I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West
#27. It's not what you say, but how you say it!
Mae West
#28. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
Mae West
#29. I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
Mae West
#30. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
Mae West
#31. 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
#32. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
#33. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
Mae West
#34. I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.
Mae West
#36. 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
#37. How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
Mae West
#38. Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
Mae West
#39. An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West
#40. I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
#41. Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.
Mae West
#42. Tira begins to sing "I'm No Angel" to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses ...
Mae West
#43. You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
Mae West
#44. It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
#45. I've been things and I've seen places.
Mae West
#46. A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
Mae West
#47. A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
Mae West
#48. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
#49. What's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
Mae West
#50. March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
Mae West
#51. The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
Mae West
#52. A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
Mae West
#53. Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
#54. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
#55. Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West
#56. I've been things and seen places.
Mae West
#57. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West
#58. Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.
Mae West
#59. You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
Mae West
#60. A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
#61. Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
Mae West
#62. To err is human - but it feels divine.
Mae West
#63. Well behaved women do not make history.
Mae West
#64. I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
#65. I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
Mae West
#66. Sex is an emotion in motion.
Mae West
#67. Women want certain things in marriage
the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
Mae West
#68. I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
Mae West
#69. [On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
Mae West
#70. Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Mae West
#72. Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.
Mae West
#73. Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening ... Come up. I'll tell your fortune ... Ah, you can be had.
Mae West
#74. I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
Mae West
#75. Love is banality to all outsiders.
Mae West
#76. It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
Mae West
#77. All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
#78. Goodness had nothing to do with it.
Mae West
#79. Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Mae West
#80. Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
Mae West
#81. A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West
#82. Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
Mae West
#83. A man in the house is worth two on the street.
Mae West
#84. It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West
#85. There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West
#86. Never ask a man where he has been.
Mae West
#87. When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
Mae West
#88. 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
#89. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
#90. When in doubt, take a bath...
Mae West
#91. Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.
Mae West
#92. Some women pick men to marry
and others pick them to pieces.
Mae West
#93. A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.
Mae West
#94. Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Mae West
#95. Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.
Mae West
#96. I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
Mae West
#97. Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
#98. Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
#99. Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West
#100. I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
Mae West
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