Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

I've been things and seen places.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

It takes two to get one in trouble.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

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

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.