Mamie Van Doren quotes:

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentleman.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

Blondes also prefer gentlemen.

He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.