Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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 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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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
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I want the world to see my body.
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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
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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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As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.
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I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
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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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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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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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Do not worry, and worry.
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
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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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There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it.
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Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
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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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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.
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To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
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Jewish men don't know anything.