Quotes
By Marilyn Monroe
"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."
"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 going to be a great movie star some day."
"I
am not interested in money. I just want to be
wonderful."
"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a
little girl. All little girls should be told they
are pretty, even if they aren't."
"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."
"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood
night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting
alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star.
But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm
dreaming the hardest.'"
"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a
lesson since."
"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."
"Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people
until I was in Korea."
"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes 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."
"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
"He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I
had been nothing but a dumb blonde."
"I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm
tired of being known as the girl with the shape."
"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."
"[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a
thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for
your soul."
"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to
look like one."
"Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all
like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they
realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do
that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact
and on two feet."
"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."
"She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to
be gay even when she was sad. And that's
important--you know?"
"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to
have the courage to be loyal to the face I have
made."
"Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its
compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and
I've experienced them both."
"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."
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