Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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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'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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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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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.
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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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(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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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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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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There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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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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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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I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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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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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.