Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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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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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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Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
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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 believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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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.
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Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.
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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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I don't digest things with my mind.
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I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
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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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I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
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I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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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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When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.
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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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No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.
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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.