Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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I love a natural look in pictures.
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I think I made his back feel better.
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
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It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?