Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 15

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

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.

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

I do sin, but I am not the devil.

Jewish men don't know anything.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I like to feel blonde all over.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

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.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.