Jane Russell

“I've always been a Republican. I'm a Republican from the old school.”

“Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pick up pails. They were not shooting the pails.”

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the bonfire another hour to put out.”

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.”

“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.”

“Hollywood wasn't my first choice of a profession. It was part of the package.”

“My faith is a very important part of my life.”

“These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”

“I was a big star, and I am still a big star.”

“I have always been a quarter-horse woman, not a thoroughbred.”