"My public is growing up just as..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
More by Marilyn Monroe
“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”
“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.”
“They will only care when you're gone.”
More on Career
“I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.”
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
“I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.”
More on Age
“A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho MarxA man's only as old as the woman he feels.”
“While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.”
“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”