Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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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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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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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 feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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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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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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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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Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
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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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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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Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
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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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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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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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It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothes not you.
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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.