Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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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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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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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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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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If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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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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Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
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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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Do not worry, and worry.
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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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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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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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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I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
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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.