Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Marilyn Monroe

• Confidence
• Ruin
• My Mind

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Game

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Choices

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Health
  • Struggle

• I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

  

  Larry King
  • Work
  • Day
  • Relax

• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Confident
  • Away
  • Veterans

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Want
  • Song

• The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Party
  • Line
  • Communist

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• I'm not retiring.

  

  Mel Tillis

• I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Eyes
  • Religion
  • Unbeliever

• I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Great
  • Confidence

• China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Confidence
  • Ruin
  • My Mind