Jayne Mansfield Quotes

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

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.

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.

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.

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.

I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

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.

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.

Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

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'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 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.

You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

You gotta have a body.

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

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

I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.

Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.

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

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

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.

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

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

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

We live to love you more each day.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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.