Jayne Mansfield Quotes - Page 2

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'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.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

You gotta have a body.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

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.

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

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.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups

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

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.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?

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.

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

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.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

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.

Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up