Sally Rand Quotes

#1. When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Dita Von Teese

#2. I collapsed on to the ground and broke down in tears. Screw you. Go to hell, you fuckers. I wish I had a greater vocabulary to fully express the extent of my pain and hatred. But I don't. I'm just pathetic. That's all I am.

Hitomi Kanehara

#3. It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

Mal Peet

#4. If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

Sally Rand

#5. Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

Sally Rand

#6. When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Sally Rand

#7. I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Sally Rand

#8. I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

Sally Rand

#9. They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

Sally Rand

#10. I'm the original.

Sally Rand

#11. I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

Sally Rand

#12. Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Mason Cooley

#13. What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

Sally Rand

#14. She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn't take away her deepest instinct. Not just the need to survive, but the need to survive long enough and strong enough to tell them to go fuck themselves.

Stacia Kane

#15. Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

Geraldine Brooks

#16. Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Sally Rand

#17. No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

David Nicholls

#18. I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Sally Rand