About Marilyn Monroe: Marilyn Monroe is considered one of the most important popular culture icons of the twentieth century.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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's all make believe, isn't it?
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.
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.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
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.
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.
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Friends accept you the way you are.
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.
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a c...
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
