Mae West
Mae West
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth17 August 1893
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
love funny life
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
restraint ifs
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
home evening come-up
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
weakness lovers affair
I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
real cutting air
The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.
cat television hollywood
Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
sassy broadway amusing
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
school night men
I know so much about men because I went to night school.
white snow snow-white
I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.
funny fashion women
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
firsts made first-time
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
black-and-white world honey
I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.
fashion sex fun
More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
toss choir lost
Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.