Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Jewish men don't know anything.
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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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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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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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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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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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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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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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.
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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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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
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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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I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.