Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
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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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I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
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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 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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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
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The studio people want me to do 'Good-bye Charlie' for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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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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Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
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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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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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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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I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.
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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
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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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The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
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Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.