Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 16

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I think I made his back feel better.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

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.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

I've always wanted a baby.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

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.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

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.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

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.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.