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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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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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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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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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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I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!
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Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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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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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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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 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.