"Beneath the makeup & behind the smile..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe

“I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.”

“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.”

“Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”

“Please — consider me a dream.”

“The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.”

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”

“The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.”

“I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.”