Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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 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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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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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 stirs up envy, fame does.
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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.
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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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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
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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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Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
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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 the best things coincide fall apart.
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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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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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.
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Friends accept you the way you are.
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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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To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.