Well behaved women do not make history.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.