Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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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.
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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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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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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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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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My heart belongs to daddy.
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But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
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You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
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The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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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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Do not worry, and worry.
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Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.