Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American actress and burlesque entertainer.

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


 * God is love, but get it in writing.
 * As quoted in The New York Times (1 December 1988), and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) edited by Fred R. Shapiro


 * 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