"Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe

“Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.”

“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”

“As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.”

“If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.”

“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”

“I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.”

“The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.”

“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”

“But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.”