Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
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But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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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 don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
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Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
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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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Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
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I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.
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After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.