Top 40 Amanda Blake Quotes

I’ve been playing Tarzan and Jane since I was a kid.

Frankly, I’ve had it with this show-business stuff. But I love ‘Gunsmoke’ and I love the guys I work with.

I love working.

My parents had a Boston terrier, but we never became friends.

Gunsmoke’ had been a successful radio show for many years before and I was determined to go with it on TV.

Contrary to what so many think, life for the stars of Hollywood TV or movies is really quite tame. You get up at 4 A.M., arrive at the studio by and shooting starts at 8. Then you keep on working until 7:30 or 8 P.M. or even 11 at night. By the time you get back home, you’re too exhausted for anything but sleep.

People do live. People don’t die with cancer, they live with cancer.

Africa is doing little to protect its most valuable assets, the wildlife. Some of the game wardens are poaching on the preserves they’re hired to protect.

I am a victim of oral cancer, a victim of cigarette smoking.

I hate flying. I sit back and squirm.

I like living alone.

When my doctor told me I had cancer of the mouth, I didn’t believe it. I had never even heard of cancer of the mouth, yet I had it.

I gave up my fur coats years ago – what an ego trip, walking around wearing cut-up animals. Besides, fur coats don’t last. I’d rather have diamonds.

With Red Skelton, you could fall flat on your face and he’d do his sketch around it.

I am very fair and sunburn easily.

I refuse to grow old. You can think yourself into any age. There are days when I feel 195.

I need to be free.

It was very unusual for anyone to be her own person in the wild West.

I absolutely love to work and when they asked me to appear on ‘Edge of Night’ I thought it would be great fun.

I don’t even know how to explain my house, it’s so crazy.

I had never been much for outdoor activities.

I made a couple of pictures that weren’t even Bs. They were Zs.

Leopard coats are fantastic. But on the leopard.

I feel that I have my own personality and I don’t want to be typed as anyone else.

It used to take us six days to film an hour of ‘Gunsmoke.’ But I didn’t mind the fast pace of soap opera work. It was nice being able to shoot scenes in sequence. We couldn’t do that on ‘Gunsmoke.’

I love poking and looking for things for the house, so I make a great many trips to Mexico.

My first two years, with Metro, were quite unproductive. Then I had a year at Columbia that was a complete disaster.

I don’t go in for that big fashion routine. It’s a waste of money.

Western women have been a pretty tame lot – dressed in gingham dresses and consigned to hand-wringing back at the ranch, while the hero is fighting for her honor.

My movie career wasn’t going that well.

I hate Hollywood. I hate the business.

With skirts even a mid-calf length, the legs are visible almost to the knee when you sit down. And during the summer, with bathing suits and shorts, they really take over. I think every girl should do all she can to make her legs as attractive as possible.

Jewelry doesn’t give me a sense of security or anything like that I just think it’s beautiful.

It’s killing for fun or profit I can’t stand. There’s a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

The first really good piece I ever bought for myself was right after ‘Gunsmoke’ started. I couldn’t wait to get my first pay check so I could buy that pinky finger ring, with diamonds and emeralds.

I did the ‘Gunsmoke’ pilot for $250. We were all so hungry, we would have done anything.

I like to come and go as I please which means I’m not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

I never had any bad experiences on live TV.

Don’t ever call the ‘bush’ the jungle. That marks you as a rank beginner.

I see red only twice – when I took in the mirror and when I read that I’m a second Greer Garson.