“Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each othe...” — Mamie Van Doren Quote

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.

Sometimes I think I made a big mistake by not paying more attention to Prince Axel. He was looking for a wife and genuinely cared for me. Well, he had the hots for me is more like it. I would have made a great princess.

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man's world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.