Marilyn Monroe Quotes And Sayings

To Put It Bluntly, I Seem To Have A Whole Superstructure With No Foundation. But I'm Working On The Foundation.

First, I'm Trying To Prove To Myself That I'm A Person. Then Maybe I'll Convince Myself That I'm An Actress.

I've Always Wanted A Baby.

A Sex Symbol Becomes A Thing. I Just Hate To Be A Thing.

The Thing I Want More Than Anything Else? I Want To Have Children. I Used To Feel For Every Child I Had, I Would Adopt Another.

The 'Public' Scares Me, But People I Trust.

What's The Good Of Drawing In The Next Breath If All You Do Is Let It Out And Draw In Another?

I Think That When You Are Famous Every Weakness Is Exaggerated.

The Truth Is, I've Never Fooled Anyone. I've Let Men Sometimes Fool Themselves.

I Was Brought Up Differently Than The Average American Child Because The Average Child Is Brought Up Expecting To Be Happy.

In Fact, My Popularity Seems Almost Entirely A Masculine Phenomenon.

Black Men Don't Like To Be Called 'Boys,' But Women Accept Being Called 'Girls.'

I Wish I Knew Why I Am So Anguished.

I Never Wanted To Be Marilyn - It Just Happened. Marilyn's Like A Veil I Wear Over Norma Jeane.

It's Not To Much Fun To Know Yourself Too Well Or Think You Do - Everyone Needs A Little Conceit To Carry Them Through &Amp; Past The Falls.

The Public Doesn't Mind People Living Together Without Being Married, Providing They Don't Overdo It.

I'm Very Definitely A Woman And I Enjoy It.

I Have Noticed... That Men Usually Leave Married Women Alone And Are Inclined To Treat All Wives With Respect. This Is No Great Credit To Married Women.

A Career Is Born In Public - Talent In Privacy.

Arthur Miller Wouldn't Have Married Me If I Had Been Nothing But A Dumb Blonde.

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.

When Clark Gable Died, I Cried For 2 Days Straight. I Couldn't Eat Or Sleep.

Marriage Destroyed My Relationship With Two Wonderful Men.

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.

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.

Why Is It You Always Meet People When You Look Your Worst?

If You Spend Your Life Competing With Business Men, What Do You Have? A Bank Account And Ulcers!

Girls Shouldn't Worry About Being The Equal Of Men In The Business World.

It's Nice To Be Included In People's Fantasies But You Also Like To Be Accepted For Your Own Sake.

I Restore Myself When I'm Alone.

Someday I Want To Have Children And Give Them All The Love I Never Had.

If I Close My Eyes And Think Of Hollywood, All I See Is One Big Varicose Vein.

I Want To Grow Old Without Facelifts. I Want To Have The Courage To Be Loyal To The Face I Have Made.

An Actor Is Supposed To Be A Sensitive Instrument. Isaac Stern Takes Good Care Of His Violin. What If Everybody Jumped On His Violin?

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.'

Being A Sex Symbol Is A Heavy Load To Carry, Especially When One Is Tired, Hurt And Bewildered.

There Isn't Anybody That Looks Like Me Without Clothes On.

I Have Never Cared Especially For Outdoor Sports And Have No Desire To Excel At Tennis, Swimming, Or Golf. I'll Leave Those Things To The Men.

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.

Dogs Never Bite Me - Just Humans.

An Actor Is Supposed To Be A Sensitive Instrument.

I Don't Look At Myself As A Commodity, But I'm Sure A Lot Of People Have.

I Want To Be An Artist, An Actress With Integrity, And That Includes All Kinds Of Parts.

I've Always Felt Toward The Slightest Scene, Even If All I Had To Do In A Scene Was Just To Come In And Say, 'Hi,' That The People Ought To Get Their Money's Worth And That This Is An Obligation Of Mine, To Give Them The Best You Can Get From Me.

I Don't Consider Myself An Intellectual. And This Is Not One Of My Aims. But I Admire Intellectual People.

How Do I Know About A Man's Needs For A Sex Symbol? I'm A Girl.

I Like Actors Very Much, But To Marry One Would Be Like Marrying Your Brother. You Look Too Much Alike In The Mirror.

If You Can Make A Girl Laugh, You Can Make Her Do Anything.

I Am Good, But Not An Angel. I Do Sin, But I Am Not The Devil. I Am Just A Small Girl In A Big World Trying To Find Someone To Love.

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.