Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.
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Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
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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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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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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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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
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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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You know, most people really don't know me.
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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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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
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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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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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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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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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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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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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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
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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.