Top 35 Jayne Mansfield Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.”

— Jayne Mansfield

2. “If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”

— Jayne Mansfield

3. “I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.”

— Jayne Mansfield

4. “I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.”

— Jayne Mansfield

5. “My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.”

— Jayne Mansfield

6. “A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.”

— Jayne Mansfield

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7. “Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.”

— Jayne Mansfield

8. “I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I’ve never accepted anything I haven’t earned.”

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9. “It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

— Jayne Mansfield

10. “We live to love you more each day.”

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11. “Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.”

— Jayne Mansfield

12. “Women, by nature, want to be dominated.”

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13. “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”

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14. “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

15. “I like being a pin-up girl. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

— Jayne Mansfield

16. “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

17. “My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.”

— Jayne Mansfield

18. “A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.”

— Jayne Mansfield

19. “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

20. “War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.”

— Jayne Mansfield

21. “Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I’ve ever met.”

— Jayne Mansfield

22. “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

23. “You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.”

— Jayne Mansfield

24. “We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.”

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25. “You gotta have a body.”

— Jayne Mansfield

26. “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

27. “Once you were a starlet. Then you’re a star. Can you be a starlet again?”

— Jayne Mansfield

28. “A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.”

— Jayne Mansfield

29. “I don’t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn’t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.”

— Jayne Mansfield

30. “Most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “I don’t particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.”

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33. “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

34. “Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.”

— Jayne Mansfield

35. “No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.”

— Jayne Mansfield

36. “When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups.”

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37. “To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.”

— Jayne Mansfield