“We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups.”

“I like being a pin-up girl. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

“A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.”

“I don’t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn’t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.”

“A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee-a lot more. But most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.”

“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

“If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”

“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”

“I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.”

“She had no desire to be second at anything, and in striving to be first she learned the value of hard work.”
— Raymond Strait, Jayne’s press agent

“Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.”
— Walter Winchell, reporter

“I could hold this golden little woman here forever.”
— Mickey Hargitay’s father, when Jayne and Mickey visited them in Budapest.