Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
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I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
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My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
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By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.
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I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
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I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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I think I made his back feel better.
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I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
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You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
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Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
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I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.