I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

MacLaine uses a bawdy, self-deprecating joke to comment on typecasting and Hollywood’s tendency to reduce actresses to recurring “roles” or sexualized archetypes. By pretending that her pay is left “on the dresser” (a cliché associated with clients paying sex workers), she collapses the boundary between performance and identity to expose how repetitive casting can feel like a kind of professional pigeonholing. The line also signals her comic persona—wry, unembarrassed, and willing to puncture glamour with blunt humor—while implicitly critiquing an industry that rewards women for playing narrow parts and then treats them as if those parts define them.