“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“A girl doesn’t need anyone that doesn’t need her.”

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

“All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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.”

“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up to it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.”

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

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“It’s all make believe, isn’t it?”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one.” – Marilyn Monroe

“I read poetry to save time.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”

“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.”

“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”

“If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.”

“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.”

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.”

“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.