Jayne Mansfield Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

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

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

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

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

We live to love you more each day. — Jayne Mansfield

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups. — Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

Men are creatures with eight hands. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man. — Jayne Mansfield

I am a movie star. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

You gotta have a body. — Jayne Mansfield

Women, by nature, want to be dominated. — Jayne Mansfield

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. — Jayne Mansfield

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around. — Jayne Mansfield

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

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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

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

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

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

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. — Jayne Mansfield

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