"I don't want to make money, I..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe

“They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.”

“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.”

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

“Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure”

“It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.”

“Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.”

“Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”

“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”

“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”