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A Woman Can't Be Alone. She Needs A Man. A Man And A Woman Support And Strengthen Each Other. She Just Can't Do It By Herself.

The Nicest Thing For Me Is Sleep, Then At Least I Can Dream.

Important People Are Much More Interesting When They Are Drunk And Seem Much More Like Human Beings.

Friendship Is The Bestiest Thing That Comes To Life . Friends Will Always Be There For You Don't Worry About The Fakes Worry About The People Who Had Your Back From The Start And Never Treated You Wrong Always Remember They Are Your Real Friends Don't Never Take Them As Granted Because One Day Your Going To Lose A Good Friend By The Way Your Action's Are When You See A Good Friend Stick To That Person .

I'm Good, But I'm Not An Angel.

Frankly, I've Never Considered My Own Figure So Exceptional; Until Quite Recently, I Seldom Gave It Any Thought At All

We Human Beings Are Strange Creatures And Still Reserve The Right To Think For Ourselves.

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.

When It Comes Down To It, I Let Them Think What They Want. If They Care Enough To Bother With What I Do, Then I'm Already Better Than Them.

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.

I Don't Understand Why People Aren't A Little More Generous With Each Other.

In Life, We Weep At The Thought Of Death. In Death, Perhaps We Weep At The Thought Of Life.

Thoughts Of Death

Thoughts On Life

Nothing's Ever Easy As Long As You Go On Living.

I Know I Will Never Be Happy, But I Know I Can Be Gay!

I've Been On A Calendar, But I've Never Been On Time.

I Enjoy Acting When You Really Hit It Right.

Cutting Negative People From My Life Does Not Mean I Hate Them, It Simply Means I Respect Me.

Most People In The World Are Christ Lovers. And Then There Are Christ Haters. But All Of Them Are Fixated On Christ, And He Perpetuates For Ever.

Everyone’s Childhood Plays Itself Out. No Wonder No One Knows The Other Or Can Completely Understand. By This I Don’t Know If I’m Just Giving Up With This Conclusion Or Resigning Myself — Or Maybe For The First Time Connecting With Reality. How Do We Know The Pain Or Another’s Earlier Years, Let Alone All That He Drags With Him Since Along The Way At Best A Lot Of Leeway Is Needed For The Other — Yet How Much Is Unhealthy For One To Bear. I Think To Love Bravely Is The Best And Accept — As Much As One Can Bear.

I Don't Want To Play Sex Roles Any More. I'm Tired Of Being Known As The Girl With The Shape.

Men Love You More If They Can Be Made A Little Uncertain About Owning You.

Boys Think Girls Are Like Books, If The Cover Doesn't Catch Their Eye They Won't Bother To Read What's Inside".

Men Who Think That A Woman's Past Love Affairs Lessen Her Love For Them Are Usually Stupid And Weak.

(about Her Teen Years) My Admirers All Said The Same Thing In Different Ways. It Was My Fault, Their Wanting To Kiss And Hug Me.

Couldn't We End This Interview With What I Really Want To Say? That What The World Really Needs Is A Real Feeling Of Kinship -- Everybody: Stars, Laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We Are All Brothers. If We Could End This Article Saying Just That, We'd Get Down To What We Should All Be Talking About. please Don't Make Me A Joke. End The Interview With What I Believe.

It's Better To Be Angry Without Paying For Gold Than To Be Angry After You Paid.

Men Are Climbing To The Moon, But They Don’t Seem Interested In The Beating Human Heart.

I Want To Be An Artist, Not... A Celluloid Aphrodisiac.

A Woman Can Bring A New Love To Each Man She Loves, Providing There Are Not Too Many.

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'm Sin, But I'm Not The Devil.

I Never Wanted To Be Marilyn - It Just Happened. Marilyn's Like A Veil I Wear Over Norma Jeane.

Jewish Men Don't Know Anything.

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.

I’ve Given Pure Sex Appeal Very Little Thought. If I Had To Think About It I’m Sure It Would Frighten Me.

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.

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.'

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.

Only The Public Can Make A Star. It's The Studios Who Try To Make A System Out Of It.

A Sex Symbol Becomes A Thing. I Just Hate To Be A Thing.

But Square-cut Or Pear-shaped, These Rocks Don't Lose Their Shape. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.

A Strong Man Doesn't Have To Be Dominant Toward A Woman. He Doesn't Match His Strength Against A Woman Weak With Love For Him. He Matches It Against The World.

What Good Is It Being Marilyn Monroe? Why Can't I Just Be An Ordinary Woman?

I Don't Want To Make Money, I Just Want To Be Wonderful.

A Woman Knows By Intuition, Or Instinct, What Is Best For Herself.

Instinct Intuition

I Like To Feel Blonde All Over.

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.

I've Always Wanted A Baby.

The Truth Is, I've Never Fooled Anyone. I've Let Men Sometimes Fool Themselves.

I Don't Consider Myself An Intellectual. And This Is Not One Of My Aims. But I Admire Intellectual People.

You Know, Most People Really Don't Know Me.

A Friend Tells You What You Want To Hear;a Best Friend Tells You The Truth.

A Man Makes You Feel Important - Makes You Glad You Are A Woman.

A Career Is A Wonderful Thing, But You Can't Snuggle Up To It At Night.

Who Does She Think She Is, Marilyn Monroe?

One Of The Things I Like Best About Men Is They're A Little Vulnerable.

The Trouble With Censors Is That They Worry If A Girl Has Cleavage. They Ought To Worry If She Hasn't Any.

I Think That Sexuality Is Only Attractive When It's Natural And Spontaneous.

The First Effect Marriage Had On Me Was To Increase My Lack Of Interest In Sex.... Actually Our Marriage Was A Sort Of Friendship With Sexual Privileges.

Dreaming About Being An Actress, Is More Exciting Then Being One.

Black Men Don't Like To Be Called 'boys,' But Women Accept Being Called 'girls.'

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.

If Marriage Were Only Bed, We Could Have Made It.

I Read Poetry To Save Time.

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.

It Was My Fans Who Made Me A Star.

I'm Going To Be A Great Movie Star Some Day.

A Career Is Born In Public - Talent In Privacy.

I Think Every Human Being Knows How To Hate. Because If They Didn't Know How To Hate How To Hate They Wouldn't Know How To Love.

Ever Since I Became A Movie Star,i've Been Really Weird.

Girls Shouldn't Worry About Being The Equal Of Men In The Business World.

Do Not Worry, And Worry.

Of The Nude Pictures: Sure I Posed. I Needed The Money.

You Believe Lies So You Eventually Learn To Trust No One But Yourself.

Isn't There Any Other Part Of The Matzo You Can Eat?

Happiness Never Becomes A Habit.

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I Love A Natural Look In Pictures. I Like People With A Feeling One Way Or Another - It Shows An Inner Life. I Like To See That There’s Something Going On Inside Them.

Fame Is Fickle, And I Know It. It Has Its Compensations But It Also Has Its Drawbacks, And I've Experienced Them Both.

One Of The Best Things That Ever Happened To Me Is That I'm A Woman. That Is The Way All Females Should Feel.

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Wise Girls Kiss But Never Love, Listen But Never Believe, And Leave Befor They Are Left.

I Keep My Undies In The Icebox!

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Always Remember To Smile And Look Up At What You Got In Life.

I Love To Do The Things The Censors Won't Pass.

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.

In Hollywood A Girl's Virtue Is Much Less Important Than Her Hairdo.

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I'm For The Individual As Opposed To The Corporation. The Way It Is The Individual Is The Underdog, And With All The Things A Corporation Has Going For Them The Individual Comes Out Banged On Her Head. The Artist Is Nothing. It's Really Tragic.

Having A Child, That's Always Been My Biggest Fear. I Want A Child And I Fear A Child.

I Am Not A Victim Of Emotional Conflicts. I Am Human.

Marriage Is The Dark Side Of The Honeymoon

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

Personally, I React To Marlon Brando. He's A Favorite Of Mine.

I Am Good, But Not An Angel. I Do Sin, But I Am Not The Devil. I Am Just A Small Girl In A Big World Trying To Find Someone To Love.

Designers Want Me To Dress Like Spring, In Billowing Things. I Don't Feel Like Spring. I Feel Like A Warm Red Autumn.

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...

This Life Is What You Make It. No Matter What, You're Going To Mess Up Sometimes, It's A Universal Truth. But The Good Part Is You Get To Decide How You're Going To Mess It Up. Girls Will Be Your Friends - They'll Act Like It Anyway. But Just Remember, Some Come, Some Go. The Ones That Stay With You Through Everything - They're Your True Best Friends. Don't Let Go Of Them.

In Rockford I Decided That I Had Seen Enough Of The World.

The One Thing A Person Wants In Life Is Usually Something Basic That Money Can't Buy.

I Learned Also That The Best Way To Keep Out Of Trouble Was By Never Complaining Or Asking For Anything.

I Believe That Everything Happens For A Reason. People Change So That You Can Learn To Let Go, Things Go Wrong So That You Appreciate Them When They're Right, You Believe Lies So You Eventually Learn To Trust No One But Yourself, And Sometimes Good Things Fall Apart So Better Things Can Fall Together.

My Marriage Didn't Make Me Sad, But It Didn't Make Me Happy Either. My Husband And I Hardly Spoke To Each Other. This Wasn't Because We Were Angry. We Had Nothing To Say. I Was Dying Of Boredom.

You've Got A Way With Words. You Got Me Smiling Even When It Hurts. There's No Way To Measure What Your Love Is Worth, I Can't Believe The Way You Get Through To Me. ~ Shania Twain If You Can Make A Girl Laugh, You Can Make Her Do Anything

People Always Ask Me If I Believe Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend. Frankly, I Don't.

People Respect You Because They Feel You've Survived Hard Times And Endured, And Although You've Become Famous, You Haven't Become Phony.

Always, Always, Always Believe In Yourself, Because If You Don't, Then Who Will, Sweetie?

When Clark Gable Died, I Cried For 2 Days Straight. I Couldn't Eat Or Sleep.

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.

The Truth Can Only Be Recalled, Never Invented.

Why Is It You Always Meet People When You Look Your Worst?

Fame Doesn't Fulfill You. It Warms You A Bit, But That Warmth Is Temporary.

It Might Be A Kind Of Relief To Be Finished. You Have To Start All Over Again. But I Believe You’re Always As Good As Your Potential. I Now Live In My Work And In A Few Relationships With The Few People I Can Really Count On. Fame Will Go By, And, 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.

The Real Lover Is The Man Who Can Thrill You Just By Touching Your Head Or Smiling Into Your Eyes - Or Just By Staring Into Space.

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.

Sisters Make The Best Friends In The World.

Heartbreaking Love

No Girl Should Ever Forget That She Doesn't Need Anyone Who Doesn't Need Her.

What Good Am I? I Can't Have Kids. I Can't Cook. I've Been Divorced Three Times. Who Would Want Me?

I'm Thirty-six Years Old. I'm Just Getting Started!

There Is Just No Comparison Between Having A Dinner Date With A Man And Staying Home Playing Canasta With The Girls.

I Don't Want Everybody To See Exactly Where I Live, What My Sofa Or My Fireplace Looks Like.

A Kiss On The Hand Might Feel Very Good, But A Diamond Tiara Is Forever.

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.

I Have Evolved My Own Exercises, For The Muscles I Wish To Keep Firm, And I Know They Are Right For Me Because I Can Feel Them Putting The Proper Muscles Into Play As I Exercise.

Try To Enjoy Myself When I Can - I'll Be Miserable Enough As It Is.

I Wanna Be Loved By You, Just You, Nobody Else But You.

It’s Easier To Look Sexy When You’re Thinking Of One Man In Particular.

I Don't Know Who Invented High Heels, But All Women Owe Him A Lot.

An Actor Is Supposed To Be A Sensitive Instrument. Isaac Stern Takes Good Care Of His Violin. What If Everybody Jumped On His Violin?

Sometimes I Think I Was More In Control Of My Life Years And Years Ago, And Yet One Should Make Progress; One Should Learn More Every Year And Become…well, If Not Happier, Then Calmer And More Able To Handle Your Problems. But I’m Not. Sometimes I Just Seem To Make More Problems For Myself. I Do. It Makes Me Feel I Haven’t Grown Up As Much As I Should Have By Now.

Most Men Judge Your Importance In Their Lives By How Much You Can Hurt Them.

If Your Man Is A Sports Enthusiast, You May Have To Resign Yourself To His Spouting Off In A Monotone On A Prize Fight, Football Game Or Pennant Race.

Gee, I Never Thought I Had An Effect On People Until I Was In Korea.

Creativity Has Got To Start With Humanity.

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.

All Girls Are Beautiful In Their Own Way

Dogs Have Never Hurt Me. Only Men Have.

I'm Trying To Find Myself. Sometimes It's Not That Easy.

All Little Girls Should Be Told They Are Pretty.

...i've Found Out It's Fun To Go Shopping. It's Such A Feminine Thing To Do.

I Learned To Walk When I Was Ten Months Old And I've Been Walking This Way Ever Since.

Sex Is Nature, And I Believe In Going Along With Nature.

Hollywood Is A Place Where They'll Pay You A Thousand Dollars For A Kiss And Fifty Cents For Your Soul.

I Think Cheesecake Helps Call Attention To You. Then You Can Follow Through And Prove Yourself.

Just Because You Fail Once Doesn't Mean You're Gonna Fail At Everything.

Beneath The Makeup And Behind The Smile I Am Just A Girl Who Wishes For The World.

The Body Is Meant To Be Seen, Not All Covered Up.

It's All Make Believe, Isn't It?

They've Said I Want To Direct Pictures. I Couldn't Direct Traffic.

Someone Said To Me, 'if Fifty Percent Of The Experts In Hollywood Said You Had No Talent And Should Give Up, What Would You Do?' My Answer Was Then And Still Is, 'if A Hundred Percent Told Me That, All One Hundred Percent Would Be Wrong.'

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.

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.

Just Remember, Some Come, Some Go. The Ones That Stay With You Through Everything - They're Your True Best Friends. Don't Let Go Of Them.

My Travels Have Always Been Of The Same Kind. No Matter Where I've Gone Or Why I've Gone There It Ends Up That I Never See Anything. Becoming A Movie Star Is Living On A Merry-go-round. When You Travel You Take The Merry-go-round With You. You Don't See Natives Or New Scenery. You See Chiefly The Same Press Agents, The Same Sort Of Interviewers, And The Same Picture Layouts Of Yourself.

My Illusions Didn't Have Anything To Do With Being A Fine Actress. I Knew How Third Rate I Was. I Could Actually Feel My Lack Of Talent, As If It Were Cheap Clothes I Was Wearing Inside. But, My God, How I Wanted To Learn, To Change, To Improve!

It's Better To Be Unhappy Alone Than Unhappy With Someone - So Far.

Experts On Romance Say For A Happy Marriage There Has To Be More Than A Passionate Love. For A Lasting Union, They Insist, There Must Be A Genuine Liking For Each Other. Which, In My Book, Is A Good Definition For Friendship.

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?

The Public Doesn't Mind People Living Together Without Being Married, Providing They Don't Overdo It.

Beauty And Femininity Are Ageless And Can't Be Contrived, And Glamour, Although The Manufacturers Won't Like This, Cannot Be Manufactured. Not Real Glamour; It's Based On Femininity.

Maybe I’ll Never Be Able To Do What I Hope To, But At Least I Have Hope.

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 Don't Look At Myself As A Commodity, But I'm Sure A Lot Of People Have.

I Feel That Beauty And Femininity Are Ageless

Friends Accept You The Way You Are.

Well, Whatever I Am, I Am The Blonde!

Arthur Miller Wouldn't Have Married Me If I Had Been Nothing But A Dumb Blonde.

I Am Good, But Not An Angel. I Do Sin, But I Am Not The Devil. I Am Pretty, But Not Beautiful. I Have Friends, But I Am Not The Peacemaker.

What I Really Want To Say: That What The World Really Needs Is A Real Feeling Of Kinship. Everybody: Stars, Laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We Are All Brothers.

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 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.

Fame May Go By And - So Long, I've Had You.

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.

At Twelve I Looked Like A Girl Of Seventeen. My Body Was Developed And Shapely. I Still Wore The Blue Dress And The Blouse The Orphanage Provided. They Made Me Look Like An Overgrown Lummox.

Just Because You've Failed Once, It Doesn't Mean You're Going To Fail At Everything.

I Think To Love Bravely Is The Best And Accept - As Much As One Can Bear.

If I'd Observed All The Rules, I'd Never Have Got Anywhere.

When You Don't Have Any Money, The Problem Is Food. When You Have Money, It's Sex. When You Have Both, It's Health.

I Think One Of The Basic Reasons Men Make Good Friends Is That They Can Make Up Their Minds Quickly.

Nearly Everyone I Knew Talked To Me About God. They Always Warned Me Not To Offend Him.

A Wise Girl Kisses But Doesn't Love, Listens But Doesn't Believe, And Leaves Before She Is Left.

I Have Never Liked Sex. I Do Not Think I Ever Will. It Just Seems The Opposite Of Love.

I Don't Know If High Society Is Different In Other Cities, But In Hollywood, Important People Can't Stand To Be Invited Someplace That Isn't Full Of Other Important People. They Don't Mind A Few Unfamous People Being Present Because They Make Good Listeners.

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's The Good Of Drawing In The Next Breath If All You Do Is Let It Out And Draw In Another?

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.

I'm Pretty, But I'm Not Beautiful.

The Only Thing A Star Asks Is To Be Allowed To Twinkle.

I'm So Many People. They Shock Me Sometimes. I Wish I Was Just Me! I Used To Think I Was Going Crazy, Until I Discovered That Some People I Admired Were Like That To.

Millions Of People Live Their Entire Lives Without Finding Themselves. But It Is Something I Must Do.

I've Never Dropped Anyone I Believed In.

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