Marilyn Monroe
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
It's all make believe, isn't it?
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Friends accept you the way you are.
I defy gravity.
I like to feel blonde all over.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
A smart girl leaves before she is left.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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.
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
I want the world to see my body.
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
You know, most people really don't know me.
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.