“When you walk into a room, put your head up and look like you want to f**k everybody. You are the most beautiful woman in the world, enjoy it.” | Brigitte Bardot
“I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.” | Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot with Sacha Distel, 1958
“It’s all a question of luck.” | Josephine Baker
“…the most sensational woman anyone ever saw.” | Ernest Hemingway
“Beautiful? I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.” | Josephine Baker
“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.” | Jane Russell
“I like a man who can run faster than I can.” | Jane Russell
“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” | Ava Gardner
“I haven’t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven’t been in jail, and I don’t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That’s something of an accomplishment these days.” | Ava Gardner
“I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood” | Ava Gardner, 1948 | Getty Images
