Cleo Moore Quotes (20 Quotes)

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

Ever since that Jack Eigen kiss incident, people don't ask me for my autograph any more.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

So I end up using about ten tubes of lipstick a day. I've even had to buy a darker kind than I prefer to wear in order to make a better print.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

I made a number of pictures, strictly C-pictures that were done on small budgets with a crackerjack director and actor who's now dead, Hugo Haas.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.