Marilyn Monroe Quotes
-
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
-
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.
-
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
-
The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
-
Do not worry, and worry.
-
Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
-
I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
-
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
-
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.
-
But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
-
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
-
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
-
I love a natural look in pictures.
-
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.'
-
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
-
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
-
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.
-
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.