It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle
Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives
I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, ‘there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyways
A career is born in public, talent in privacy
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
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love
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
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together
It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on
There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos
"The truth is 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
Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy
Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since
If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring
the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream
Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine
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
If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation
Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I’ve experienced them both
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing
That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes 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
I’ve always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one
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
Suicide is a person’s privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime. It’s your right if you want to, though it doesn’t get you anywhere
I don’t want to play sex roles any more. I’m tired of being known as the girl with the shape
Everyone’s just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can’t I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I’m just a girl who wishes for the world
My illusions didn’t have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve
Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered
You know who I always depend on? Not strangers, not friends. The telephone! That’s my best friend. I seldom write letters, but I love calling friends, especially late at night, when I can’t sleep
They’ve said I want to direct pictures. I couldn’t direct traffic
I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people
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
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you
I kept driving past the theatre with my name on the marquee. Was I excited. I wished they were using ‘Norma Jeane’ so that all the kids at the home and schools who never noticed me could see it
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I’d settle for just one baby. My own baby
Blonde hair and breasts, that’s how I got started. I couldn’t act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men
I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I’m sure it would frighten me
A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and my neck
I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me
I think if other girls know how bad I was when I started they’ll be encouraged. 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
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