Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!
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In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
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Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. … I'll see, I'll see.
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
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Remember now, Cheers, no tears.
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As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.
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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
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Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.
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I like to feel blonde all over.
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I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.