Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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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 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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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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Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
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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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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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There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
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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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I believe in everything - a little bit.
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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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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
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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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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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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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The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'