Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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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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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'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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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
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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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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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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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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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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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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
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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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(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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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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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 am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
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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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I'm going to be a great movie star some day.