I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.