Quotes from Lana Turner

Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.

I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

I've always loved a challenge.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.