Gypsy Rose Lee Quotes

• It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Fear, Writing, Air

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• You don't have to be naked to look naked. You just have to think naked.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Thinking, Naked, Looks

  "More tease than strip" by Dea Birkett, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2009.

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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Sexy, Advice, Worth Waiting For

  "Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars" by Gene Shalit, (p. 46), 2003.

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• Men aren’t attracted to me by my mind. They’re attracted by what I don’t mind.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Men, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Clubs, Heavy, Protect

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• I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Birthday, Fun, Years

  "The Making of a Muckraker". Book by Jessica Mitford, p. 113, 1979.

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• She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Sarcastic, Mother, Long

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• I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Morning, Inspiration, Home

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• God is love, but get it in writing.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Women, Memorable, Writing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1988

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• I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Entertainers, Paid, Highest

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• Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Anything Worth Doing, Wells

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• I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Birthday, Years, Years Ago

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• A naked dog for a naked lady.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Dog, Naked

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• The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Funny, Dog, Like Me

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