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
bed able lasts
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.
marriage book stories
Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.
home sassy police
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
love running men
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
hem littles way
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
funny gardening lambs
March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
love funny marriage
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
stars thinking clothes
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
funny money math
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
men good-man hard
It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
sarcastic witty humorous
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.
careers long misunderstood
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
men has-beens asks
Never ask a man where he has been.
sarcastic dream witty
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.