Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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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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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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I don't digest things with my mind.
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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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A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
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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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No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.
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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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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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Friends accept you the way you are.
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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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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
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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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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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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 don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
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If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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I think I made his back feel better.