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I'm going to put some quotes from a very beautiful woman. I love her, she is my idol.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
It's better to be unhappy alone, than unhappy with someone - so far.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5 of course!
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
It's all make believe, isn't it?
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. ... Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it's really true. ... 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.
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
ay good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Why? — It paid the rent.
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation — but I'm working on the foundation.
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you. ((also quoted as: People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothing.))
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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.
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
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'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
I think that's enough for now. All quotes were said by Marilyn Monroe. Goodbye, Norma Jean.
Shigure's Carma
