Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
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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've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
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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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To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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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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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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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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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
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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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There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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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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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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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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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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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 was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.