"Good theater is not what is expected,..." - Quote by Mae West

“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”

“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”

“all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.”

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

“Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.”

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.”

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

“That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."”