Quotes by Jane Russell

“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you dont have any.”

“These days (2003) I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”

“I like a man who can run faster than I can.”

“ The Other Jane Russell”

“Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw. And he never knew. He wasnt going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.”

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

“They held up The Outlaw for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.”

“The chaperones job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody chaperones the chaperone. Thats why Im so right for this job.”

In second grade my second love wrote I love you on a scrap of paper and dropped it on my desk as he passed by. He was very shy and sullen. When he moved to another school at the end of the term, I was heartsick. I thought about him all summer. But I learned then that we do outgrow people and our tastes do change. One should not marry until one is older. At least ten.

I love God and when you get to know Him you find Hes a Livin Doll.