Cleo Moore Quotes

You know, just because you`re a blonde type doesn`t mean you can`t suddenly do serious parts. I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous. I`m just hoping I don`t get typed for those creature movies - you know, "The Thing From Outer Sputnik" and so on.

My biggest publicity stunt was that famous five-minute television kiss I engaged in with disk jockey Jack Eigen. Our lips met for all of five minutes on the TV screen, and that cost poor Jack his job. The station was flooded with protesting phone calls and telegrams.

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.

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

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

I like to paint nudes mostly.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

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

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

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

You know, just because you`re a blonde type doesn`t mean you can`t suddenly do serious parts.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.