You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

- Cleo Moore

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

- Cleo Moore

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 gue…

- Cleo Moore

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

- Cleo Moore

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.

- Cleo Moore

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

- Cleo Moore

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

- Cleo Moore

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

- Cleo Moore

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

- Cleo Moore