Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
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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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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 experience, but that's not where I live.
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What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
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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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After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.
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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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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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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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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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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
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Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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I want the world to see my body.
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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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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
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This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
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Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.