- 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.
- Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.
- 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.
- Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
- I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.
- I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.
- I like being a pin-up girl, there's nothing wrong with it.
- A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.
- 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.
- War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
- I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things, but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.
- 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.
- No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
- I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous... shoulders.
- Looks don't regulate a girl's body temperature, at least not this girl's body temperature. Intelligence in a man is the keynote and no girl in her right mind is going to go shopping for a man who's handsome and husky alone.
- To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
- I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.
- 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?
- If you want the best things in life, you have to earn them for yourself.
- I like the California style of living.
- [Upon learning that 20th Century-Fox had lied to her about being considered for the lead in a film about the life of Jean Harlow] I have thousands of letters here, from people all over the world, saying I am the perfect Harlow... even naturally have her mannerisms of caressing my body and arms in that way. But no, they can't see me playing the dramatic side of Harlow's life.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly, healthy feeling. If you're a woman it's womanly, if you're not it's manly... it comes only from inside... it's an effervescent desire to enjoy life.
- You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.
- Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
- If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
- The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.
- I love sex... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic... There are few rules and moral conventions.
- Nothing risque, nothing gained.
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