Mae West
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Mary Jane West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) American actress and playwright, most commonly known as "Mae" West.
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- Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
- Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What a lovely diamond!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).
- Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ... Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Peel me a grape.
- I'm No Angel (1933)
- When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
- I'm No Angel (1933)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- A man in the house is worth two in the street.
- Belle of the Nineties
- It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men
- I'm No Angel
- When women go wrong, men go right after them.
- She Done Him Wrong
- To a young muscle man she was auditioning. After asking him how tall he was and he answered in feet and inches, 80-something Mae says something like (can't remember the exact measurements): 'Never mind about the five foot, let's talk about the eight inches'
- Myra Breckinridge
- I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
- Sextette
- 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.
- Sextette
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- An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.
- I consider sex a misdemeanor; the more I miss, de meaner I get.
- I do all my best work in bed.
- Sex is like bridge; if you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
- I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
- If Kinsey is right, I have only done what comes naturally, what the average American does secretly, drenching himself in guilt fixations and phobias because of his sense of sinning. I have never felt myself a sinner or committed what I would call a sin.
- I've been in more laps than a napkin.
- Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
- Sex is an emotion in motion.
- Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love— that's not so bad either.
- You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Live him, maybe— but not love him.
- A hard man is good to find.
- Too much of a good thing can be simply wonderful.
- When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
- You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
- I never meant "Come up and see me some time" to be sexy.
- Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
- Reputation is everything.
