Marilyn Monroe
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Stars
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.Collection: Crazy
I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.Collection: Inspiring
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.Collection: Inspiring
Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.Collection: Girl
I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.Collection: Thinking
They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.Collection: Sick
I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.Collection: Night
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'Collection: Responsibility
The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.Collection: Fans
Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervousCollection: Creativity
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.Collection: Inspiring
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.Collection: Mirrors
Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.Collection: Acting
I think I made his back feel better.Collection: Feel Better
Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.Collection: Inspirational
Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.Collection: Stars
Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.Collection: Pain
It stirs up envy, fame does.Collection: Envy
A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!Collection: Sweaters
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.Collection: Inspiring
I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.Collection: Hate
I have too much imagination to be a housewifeCollection: Imagination
I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.Collection: Girl
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.Collection: Men
Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.Collection: Inspiring
I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?Collection: Sad
I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.Collection: Queens
A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.Collection: Inspiring
I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.Collection: Crazy
They will only care when you're gone.Collection: Gone
Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burdenCollection: Real
In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.Collection: World
I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.Collection: People
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.Collection: Acting
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.Collection: Inspiring
My heart belongs to daddy.Collection: Heart
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at allCollection: Real
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.Collection: Determination
People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.Collection: Inspiring
Nights are not just for sleep.Collection: Sleep
I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.Collection: Artist
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.Collection: Running
I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.Collection: Months
I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.Collection: Sex
Do not worry, and worry.Collection: Worry
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.Collection: Mother