Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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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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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 think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.
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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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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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I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
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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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Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
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Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?
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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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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
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I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.
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It stirs up envy, fame does.
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People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
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I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
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Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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My heart belongs to daddy.
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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.