Gypsy Rose Lee Quotes

Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer and vedette famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.

✵ 9. January 1911 – 26. April 1970
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Famous Gypsy Rose Lee Quotes

“I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.”

As quoted in The Making of a Muckraker (1979) by Jessica Mitford, p. 113

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.”

As quoted in Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars (2003) by Gene Shalit, p. 46

“God is love, but get it in writing.”

As quoted in The New York Times (1 Decemeber 1988), and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) edited by Fred R. Shapiro

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