Citazioni

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

There are two reasons why I am successful in show business and I am standing on both of them.

It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!

I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

[on Alice Faye] Alice is a darling. Everybody loves her.

There's nothing mysterious about me.

My legs made me.

[on Marilyn Monroe] It may sound peculiar to say so, because she is no longer with us, but we were very close. Once when we were doing that picture Come sposare un milionario (1953) together, I got a call on the set: my younger daughter had had a fall. I ran home and the one person to call was Marilyn. She did an awful lot to boost things up for movies when everything was at a low state; there'll never be anyone like her for looks, for attitude, for all of it.

[Concerning her and other stars' status as World War II pin-up queens] A lot of these kids don't have any women in their life to fight for - I guess what you would call us girls is kind of their inspiration. It is a grave responsibility.

[on the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz relationship] She was everything to him. It was always Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. She was his life.

[on her 11/19/37 marriage] I want to be Mrs. Jackie Coogan for life. [NOTE: They divorced three months later]

[asked if her status as a new mother threatened her image] I never thought of it. If they don't like it, the devil with 'em. Fact is, I've more fan mail since, especially from servicemen telling me about their wives and babies.

[in 1942] Maybe it's a wholesome quality or an American girl quality. People write to me as if I were a sister or friend.