Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
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For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
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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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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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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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I think I made his back feel better.
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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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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 don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
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By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.
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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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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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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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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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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 don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...
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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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Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all.
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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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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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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 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.