Marilyn Monroe Quotes
It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.
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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
