"When I was five, I think, that's..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.
More by Marilyn Monroe
“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”
“Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.”
“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.”
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More on Childhood
“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.”
“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”
“We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.”