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date: 15 May 2025

Mae West 1892–1980
American film actress. See also Anonymous, Belle of the Nineties, Every Day's a Holiday, I'm No Angel, Klondike Annie, Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong 

  1. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
    Goodness had Nothing to Do with It (1959)
  2. I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
    on having an inflatable life jacket named after her
    letter to the RAF, early 1940s; Fergus Cashin Mae West (1981)
  3. It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
    Joseph Weintraub The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West (1967)
  4. Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
    usually quoted as ‘Is that a pistol in your pocket…’
    Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975)
  5. I used to be Snow White…but I drifted.
    Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975)
  6. A hard man is good to find.
    attributed
  7. I'm the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
    P. F. Boller and R. L. Davis Hollywood Anecdotes (1988)
  8. It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
    G. Eells and S. Musgrove Mae West (1989)