Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Jayne Mansfield
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Jayne Mansfield.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.
Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.
Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.
You gotta have a body.
The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.
No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
I want to be a great actress.
I am a movie star.
A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.
I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.
Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.
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.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.
We live to love you more each day.
I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals — black and white — but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted
Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.
I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there.
I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.
We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.
To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.
I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.
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.
Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.
I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.
Men are creatures with eight hands.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up
I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.
Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?
A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.
Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.
I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.
When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
Women, by nature, want to be dominated.
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