Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 17

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

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 burden

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

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.

They will only care when you're gone.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

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.

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

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.

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?

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature.

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.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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.

Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.