Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
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The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.
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After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.
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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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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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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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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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I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
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Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
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I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
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If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
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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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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
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I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
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Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
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I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
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I think to love bravely is the best and accept – as much as one can bear.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.