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Jane Russell Quotes
http://chatterbusy.blogspot.com/2012/10/jane-russell-quotes.html
1. 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" (1943). And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes
off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.
2. They held up "The Outlaw" (1943) for five years. And Howard Hughes had me
doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
3. 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.
4. These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded,
conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. (2003)
5. People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a
woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between
life and death.
6. The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched
abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said: "What butcher did
this to you?" I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've
never known pain like it. (Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at
eighteen)
7. I have always been a Republican, and when I was in Hollywood long ago, most
of the people there were Republican. The studio heads were all Republican, my
boss Howard Hughes was a raving Republican, and we had a motion picture code in
those days so they couldn't do all this naughty stuff. We had John Wayne, we had
Charlton Heston, we had man named Ronald Reagan, we had Robert Mitchum, James
Stewart, Clark Gable.
8. I think they're not well. (Asked what she thinks of Hollywood liberals George
Clooney, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn)
9. The music these kids play nowadays, it's nothing but screaming and pounding
drums! You can't hear the words, and that's just as well, because the words
stink!
10. My son said: "Mother you can't say the word bigot because that has to do
with nationalities and things." I said: "No darling, it's a verb. It means I
can't stand these people who are trying to take the Ten Commandments off the
wall, take prayer out of school and take prayer out of football games." It's too
ridiculous. The Lord put this country together or we wouldn't be like we are.
11. The girl with the summer-hot lips... and the winter-cold heart.
12. I think the Sixties have happened between when I was there and now. A lot of
the actors and actresses, their parents were Sixties people and they just have a
Democratic left wing - they flipped. (Asked why modern Hollywood is so liberal)
13. Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
14. I like a man who can run faster than I can.
15. Why did I quit movies? Because I was getting too old! You couldn't go on
acting in those years if you were an actress over 30.
16. The chaperone's job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody
chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.
17. I want to save America. I do not want a one-world order, a one-world
government, at all. I think that our Founding Fathers had exactly the right
idea, and we've got a great country, and let's go back to God. (2001)
18. I've been working a lot to get the Bible back in schools because I think a
great deal of our loss of wisdom as a society results from the fact that a lot
of children have never read the Bible. I've been helping Elizabeth Ridenour (of
the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools) get the Bible back
in school by going on television shows for her. She's gotten it into 38 states
and 117 school districts, and as a result of this effort 60,000 children have
now been able to read the Bible.
19. I liked Condoleezza Rice. And Ann Coulter was great. She was so strong and
forceful. But people kept asking me: "You're from Hollywood. Why are you here?"
I very much wanted to tell them, as a whole group, that in my day Hollywood was
Republican. All the heads of the studios were Republicans, and we were fighting
communism. You had John Wayne and Charlton Heston and myself and Bob Mitchum,
and President Ronald Reagan came right out of that same group. There were a few
Democrats in Hollywood, but we thought they were crazy.
20. Music has gone just as bananas as the movies. But kids are learning swing
and going back to the music of the forties. There's a swing club near my home in
Santa Barbara, and the kids are fantastic. There's no drinking, no smoking, just
dancing all night long.
21. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin D. Roosevelt
was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded
right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't
like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.
22. I can't tell you how distressed I've been during the past seven years of the
Clinton Administration, with one cheap and tawdry scandal erupting after
another. And I thought Hollywood was bad! I was particularly disgusted by the
radical feminists who tried to excuse the President's misbehavior, even as the
testimony of his victims accumulated and it turned out that they weren't all
"little girls from Little Rock." Apparently the poor soul doesn't know any
better and just can't say no. It's been a terrible example for our young people.
Even worse than the debasement of the office of the presidency and of greater
concern is the damage that's been done to our national security by the Clinton
Administration's lax policies and by its deliberate transfer of sensitive
missile technology to China while at the same time accepting campaign
contributions from that foreign power. Instead of looking forward to a century
of peace at the beginning of the new millennium, we now face the very real
prospect of World War III. Our military readiness has dropped fifty percent
since Clinton took office and our soldiers are frantic. (2000)
23. It was always an accident; I wish I could take some of the credit. My mother
used to say: "You have a path from heaven and if you fall off of it, it'll be a
problem, Jane." It was always the case where no matter what way I wanted to go,
the Lord wanted me to go this way.
24. I really think the 1940s were the best generation for Hollywood. Everybody
was patriotic then. Nobody was talking the way they do now, against the
soldiers. It was a different era, a different Hollywood then, and we respected
our country, our leaders and our fighting men. Sure, I'll admit, I'm a
mean-spirited, politically conservative old actress. I'm not bigoted against any
race, just those idiots who want to spit on our soldiers' hard work or remove
the Ten Commandments from our schools and courtroom walls.
25. She once got her life so balled up that the studio hired a full-time
secretary maid for her. So Marilyn soon got the secretary as balled up as she
was, and she ended up waiting on the secretary, instead of vice-versa. (on her
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" co-star Marilyn Monroe)
26. I'm a valley girl. Instead of going to an acting coach every night after we
finished shooting, I'd go home and have dinner with my family.
27. I was born to be married. A family life helps everything, and also my belief
in Jesus.
28. Marilyn's first husband, Jim, went to high school with me. One day he came
by and said: "I want you to meet my wife". (about Marilyn Monroe)
29. She was a pretty girl, and later on I discovered that she was shy and
sensitive. (about Marilyn Monroe)
30. When we made "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" together and I discovered that she
was nervous about going on set, I finally went to her dressing room and said:
"All right, baby, come on set with me now, we've only got a few minutes." And
she said: "Ooh".
31. I remember there was this actor, Tommy Noonan, who had to do a kissing scene
with her, and afterwards some guy asked: "You've just kissed Marilyn Monroe.
What was it like?" And Tommy replied: "It was like being swallowed alive."
Marilyn overheard that and ran crying to her dressing room. I grew up with boys,
so boys didn't bother me. I knew all about them. I don't think Marilyn did. But
she wasn't a dumb blonde. (about Marilyn Monroe)
32. Right before she died, she was planning to marry Joe DiMaggio, her second
husband, again, and she had a new movie contract. So I don't think she killed
herself. Someone did it for her. There were dirty tricks somewhere. (about
Marilyn Monroe)
33. Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to
say: "I am your enemy".
34. David thinks I'm his other mother. He is very giving, and I think someone
was talking to Liza and saying: "He's using you", which was a bunch of crap.
(about David Gest and Liza Minelli)
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