Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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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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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
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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 been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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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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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 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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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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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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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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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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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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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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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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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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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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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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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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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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(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.