Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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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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I'm going to be a great movie star some day.
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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'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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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.
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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 am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
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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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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
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The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.
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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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I think I have always had a little humor.
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation - but I'm working on the foundation.
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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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When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
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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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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.