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