“It’s better to be looked over than overlooked.”
“When women go wrong, men go right after them!”
“When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better.”
“I only like two kinds of men: Foreign and Domestic.”
“I wrote the story myself. It’s all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.”
“It ain’t sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.”
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
“Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I’ve always had time to teach them.”
Mae West was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered problems especially with censorship. She once quipped, “I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.” She bucked the studio system by making comedy out of conventional beliefs, and the Depression-era audience admired her for it.
One of her boyfriends and life long friends was the African American boxer William Jones, nicknamed Gorilla Jones. When management at her Ravenswood apartment building barred him from entering, she solved the problem by purchasing the building and lifting the ban. (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Mae West!
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