Marilyn Monroe

“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

“I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.”

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

“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.”

“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“It was my fans who made me a star.”

“Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”

“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?”

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

“I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.”

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

“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?”

“By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition”

“I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.”

“Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”

“It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.”

“I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.”

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

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

“Remember now, Cheers, no tears.”

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

“I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.”

“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 sky is not the limit. Your mind is”

“Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.”

“The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.”

“a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.”

“I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.”

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.”

“Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!”

“Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.”

“Nights are not just for sleep.”

“I'm going to be a great movie star some day.”

“People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.”

“I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.”

“(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.”

“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”