All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

“They will only care when you’re gone.”

“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.”

“I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“Everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don’t think they realize it, but it’s like ‘grrr do this, grr do that…’But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.”

“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.”

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.” -Marilyn Monroe

“I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.”

“If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.”

“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.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle.”

“The most unsatisfactory men are those who pride themselves on their virility and regard sex as if it were some form of athletics at which you can win cups. It is a woman’s spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or by just staring into space.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.”

“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.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?”

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”

“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.”

“I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”

“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.”

“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

“I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.”

“I restore myself when I’m alone.”\

“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.”

“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.”

“I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”

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

“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.”

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

“It’s far 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!”

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.”

“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.”

“If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”

“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.”

“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.”

“I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.”

“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 don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.”