Gypsy Rose Lee

thumb|right|If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly. 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 External links Category:Actresses from Seattle Category:1911 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Dancers from the United States Category:Women born in the 1910s Category:Activists from Los Angeles Category:Actresses from Los Angeles Category:Actresses from Manhattan Category:Novelists from Los Angeles Category:Novelists from New York City