Mae West
American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)
Mary Jane West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress and playwright, most commonly known as "Mae" West.
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- 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.
- Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
- She Done Him Wrong (1933); this statement has widely said to be misquoted with the paraphrase: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" In fact, Mae West did say: "come up and see me sometime.” in these two movies I'm No Angel and Sextette http://quotationize.com/come-up-see-me-sometime-not-misquote-mae-west/
- 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)
- A man in the house is worth two in the street.
- Belle of the Nineties (1934)
- When I'm caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried.
- Klondike Annie (1936)
- 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!
- My Little Chickadee (1940)
- 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)
- 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
- I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
- Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
