Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Monroe - Page 3

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

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

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.

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.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

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.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I've always wanted a baby.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

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.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

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.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

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.

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.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

I don't digest things with my mind.

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

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

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

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

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.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

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.

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

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

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 love a natural look in pictures.

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.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I want the world to see my body.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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

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.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

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.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

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.