- 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 How to Marry a Millionaire (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.
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