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Mae West

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Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

Mary Jane West (August 17, 1893November 22, 1980) was an American actress and playwright, most commonly known as "Mae" West.

Quotes

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When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.
When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.
  • Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
    • Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What beautiful diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it was the title of her (1953) autobiography.
  • Oh, Beulah, Peel me a grape.
    • I'm No Angel (1933)
  • I only like two kinds of men, domestic and foreign.
    • 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)
  • It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men.
    • I'm No Angel (1933)
  • When women go wrong, men go right after them.
    • She Done Him Wrong (1933)
  • When I'm caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried.
  • You take one thing and add it to another and you get two. Two and two is four; and five'll get you ten if you know how to work it!
  • I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
  • I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
    • Sextette (1978)
  • 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 (1978)

  • Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
  • When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.
    • Quoted in "For Women, Monologues They Haven't Heard" by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
  • Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
    • #149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
  • Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
    • #684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
  • I've been in more laps than a napkin.
    • #685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
  • She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
    • #832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
  • You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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