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Mae West
21 quotes
“Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What beautiful diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her (1953) autobiography.
“Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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…
“Oh, Beulah, Peel me a grape.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm No Angel (1933)
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and foreign.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm No Angel (1933)
“When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm No Angel (1933)
“It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm No Angel (1933)
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: She Done Him Wrong (1933)
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Belle of the Nineties (1934)
“When I'm caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Klondike Annie (1936)
“You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
“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!”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Little Chickadee (1940)
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Life magazine (April 18, 1969)
“I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sextette (1978)
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sextette (1978)
“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
Mae West (1893–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Mae West (1893–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #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.”
Mae West (1893–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
Mae West (1893–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #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.”
Mae West (1893–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Mae West (1893–1980) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959