“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.”

“It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“A girl doesn’t need anyone that doesn’t need her.”

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

“All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.”

“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up to it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.”

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“It’s all make believe, isn’t it?”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one.” – Marilyn Monroe

“I read poetry to save time.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”

“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.”

“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”

“If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.”

“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.”

“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“Please quote me right!”

“The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.”

“I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

“Anything’s possible, almost.”

“This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

“I never wanted to be Marilyn — it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

“Its not too much fun to know yourself too well or think you do — everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through and past the falls.”

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

“This is a free and democratic country and no one has a monopoly on anything.”

“For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”