Mae West Video

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

If you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Nothing recedes like success.

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they try to stay in their forties too long.