Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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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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I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
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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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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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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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I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.
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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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Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
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If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
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For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
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Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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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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I love a natural look in pictures.
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I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
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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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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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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
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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.