Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning 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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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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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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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
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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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I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights.
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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
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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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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 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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I believe in everything - a little bit.
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The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.