Lana Turner Quotes

Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.

- Lana Turner

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

- Lana Turner

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

- Lana Turner

When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

- Lana Turner

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

- Lana Turner

My life has been a series of emergencies.

- Lana Turner

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

- Lana Turner

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

- Lana Turner

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

- Lana Turner

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

- Lana Turner

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

- Lana Turner

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

- Lana Turner

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

- Lana Turner

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

- Lana Turner

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

- Lana Turner

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

- Lana Turner

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

- Lana Turner

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

- Lana Turner

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

- Lana Turner

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

- Lana Turner

Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

- Lana Turner

I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

- Lana Turner

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

- Lana Turner

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

- Lana Turner

I've always loved a challenge.

- Lana Turner