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Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
Marilyn Monroe
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Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous.
Marilyn Monroe
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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.
Marilyn Monroe
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
Marilyn Monroe
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I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
Marilyn Monroe
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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn Monroe
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There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
Marilyn Monroe
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
Marilyn Monroe
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Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.
Marilyn Monroe
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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Marilyn Monroe
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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.
Marilyn Monroe
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Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
Marilyn Monroe
