"I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
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.
More by Marilyn Monroe
“I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”
“My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.”
“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.”
More on Acting
“Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.”
“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”
“Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?”
More on Ambition
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.”
“Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.”