Quote

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
Able
Marriage
Without
Arms
Never
Full
Sides
Obstructed
Middle
Extend
Sleep
Require
Anyone
Bed
Lying
Size

More quotes by Mae West

Image
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
Image
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
Mae West
Image
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West
Image
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
Image
Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
Mae West
Image
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
Mae West
Image
The score never interested me, only the game.
Mae West
Image
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
Mae West
Image
Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
Mae West
Image
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.
Mae West
Image
More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
Mae West
Image
Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
Mae West
Image
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
Image
Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
Mae West
Image
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West
Image
Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
Mae West
Image
Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
Mae West
Image
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West
Image
One more drink and I'll be under the host.
Mae West
Image
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West