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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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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Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
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I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
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That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all.
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It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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Do not worry, and worry.
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I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
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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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I love a natural look in pictures.
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.