Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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.
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.
There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
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.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I don't digest things with my mind.
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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.'
How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
I've always wanted a baby.
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.