Blaze Starr Quotes

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I liked what I saw. And I thought, 'My God, to be on stage! And you're not naked.' Back then, you wore a thick, net bra with great big beaded parts on the end. Today, you see more on the beach! So I looked in the mirror and checked out my measurements.

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Then you wore a G-string. Today you wear nothing. It was an art form. Burlesque took over when vaudeville ended and porn took over when burlesque ended.

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We lived two miles from the car road. There was the car road, and the horse road and the cattle path. And this was a dirt road; it was like 15 miles to the hardtop road, where there was a bus.

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I haven't had a drink in over six years. I remember when I was at the club. I'd have a little drink, get happy, and then go and do a good show.

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I guess I'm still onstage, because everyone in and around Baltimore knows who I am.

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I'm not rich, but I have enough from my days in the business so I don't have to work.

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It's funny. In the old days, I used to tell the Governor, 'Earl, you have Paul Newman eyes.' Well, when I first saw Paul act in a scene, I was amazed to see how he walked and talked like Earl. He must have really studied him. It's as if Earl Long's spirit is inside of that man's body.

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By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

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I didn't have a thing to do between shows, so I started to sew.

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When you have never even shown your belly button, the thought of stripping is scary. So when I went onstage for the first time in my red-and-white cowgirl outfit, I used my hat to cover myself. After the show I threw up. It wasn't that I thought there was anything wrong with stripping. I was just overwhelmed by the emotion of getting into show business.

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I never used Earl, like they said. I was making twice as much as he did, anyway! Earl was only the second man I ever loved, after my husband.

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I owned the building where the Two O'Clock Club is and I paid it off 40 years ago. I keep hearing gambling is coming to town along with Donald Trump. Maybe he'll be interested in it.

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Society thought that to be a stripper was to be a prostitute, but I always felt that I was an artist, entertaining. I was at ease being a stripper. I kept my head held high, and if there is such a thing as getting nude with class, then I did it.

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