Mae West Quotes

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Mae West

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 17, 1893

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

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I've been in more laps than a napkin.

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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

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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.

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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

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To err is human, but it feels divine.

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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

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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.

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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

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He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

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It takes two to get one in trouble.

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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

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