“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.”
“Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”
“I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.”
“It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”
“When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”
“Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”
“A man’s kiss is his signature.”
“I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.”
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
“It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.”
“He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
“Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success.”
“I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
“Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.”
“Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
“When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.”
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
“It’s not what I do, but the way I do it. It’s not what I say, but the way I say it.”
“I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”
“It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
“Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”
“His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
“I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.”
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
“It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.”
“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
“Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.”
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
“Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.”
“Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.”
“A hard man is good to find.”
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.”
“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.”
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
“I see you’re a man with ideals. I better be going before you’ve still got them.”
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
“I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
“I like restraint, if it doesn’t go too far.”
“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”
“I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?”
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”
“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”
“I’ve been things and seen places.”
“A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”
“I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”
“Sex is emotion in motion.”
“Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”
“It takes two to get one in trouble.”
“Look your best – who said love is blind?”
“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
“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.”
“Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.”
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
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