Mae West (1893 – 1980)
American actress and playwright, most commonly known as "Mae" West.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ... Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.
Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.
Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
One and one is two; two and two is four; and "five will get you ten" if you work it right!
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.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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