Quotes by West, Mae

"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

West, Mae on dress
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."

West, Mae on finance
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"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

West, Mae on humor
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"It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

West, Mae on laughter
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"I never loved another person the way I loved myself."

West, Mae on love
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"A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in."

West, Mae on love
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"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

West, Mae on marriage   

"It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men."

West, Mae on marriage
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"I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign."

West, Mae on men
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"I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without."

West, Mae on men
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"Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings."

West, Mae on women
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

West, Mae on women
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"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."

West, Mae on nudity
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"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity."

West, Mae on nudity
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

West, Mae on obscurity
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

West, Mae on personality
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"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

West, Mae on procrastination
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"He who hesitates is last."

West, Mae on procrastination   

"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on scandal
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"I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked."

West, Mae on sex
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

West, Mae on censorship
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on temptation
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office."

West, Mae on virtue
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"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."

West, Mae on virtue
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."

West, Mae on choice
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"It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."

West, Mae on
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