Marilyn Monroe
Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.Collection: Joy
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.Collection: Love
I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.Collection: Inspiring
Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.Collection: Shopping
Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.Collection: Play
Creativity has got to start with humanity.Collection: Creativity
Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.Collection: Mountain
A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.Collection: Kissing
Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.Collection: Thinking
Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.Collection: Meals
It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.Collection: Gold
Sisters make the best friends in the world.Collection: Sister
I am good, but not an angel.Collection: Angel
I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.Collection: Makeup
I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.Collection: Granted
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.Collection: Korea
I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.Collection: Sexy
Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.Collection: Inspiring
When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.Collection: Inspirational
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.Collection: Artist
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.Collection: Work
I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.Collection: Real
Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.Collection: Love
If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.Collection: Marriage
As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.Collection: Regret
I believe that everything happens for a reason.Collection: Break Up
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.Collection: President
Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.Collection: Interesting
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.Collection: Children
When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.Collection: Dream
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.Collection: Suicide
Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.Collection: Love Is
I love to do the things the censors won't pass.Collection: Love
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.Collection: Crush
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.Collection: Inspiring
Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.Collection: Funny
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.Collection: Inspiring
I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.Collection: Dumb
I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.Collection: People
I'm good, but I'm not an angel.Collection: Love
You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.Collection: Important
This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.Collection: Girl
I believe in everything - a little bit.Collection: Truth
The truth can only be recalled, never invented.Collection: Truth
I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.Collection: Trying
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.Collection: Love
You're always running into people's unconscious.Collection: Running
Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Girl