Jayne Mansfield Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I am a movie star.

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.

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.

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

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.

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

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

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.

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.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

We live to love you more each day.

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