Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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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 chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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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've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.
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Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
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Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
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People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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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 hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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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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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
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(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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I'm going to be a great movie star some day.