Mae West - a great movie star

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A while back, I posted a couple of Mae West quotes and this picture on Facebook and ever since I've been meaning to say just a tiny bit more about about her. 

Mae West (1893-1980) was a great movie star and I love watching her films which are now famous for her one-liners, many of which she wrote herself.  Here are some of my favourites (from Wikiquote) that always make me laugh:

• Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
  • Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What lovely diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).

• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ... Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
  • She Done Him Wrong (1933)

• Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
  • She Done Him Wrong (1933)

• When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.
  • I'm No Angel (1933)^[1]

• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
  • I'm No Angel (1933)^[1]

• Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.
  • Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."^[2]

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.
  • Belle of the Nineties

• It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men
  • I'm No Angel

• When women go wrong, men go right after them.
• She Done Him Wrong^[3]

I other thing I love about Mae West was that she proved that you could be a sex symbol without being a size 0 (or even a size 4, 8 or even 10!)