Movie actress Marilyn Monroe was known as a sex symbol and "blonde bombshell." She's best known for her glamour, her comedic wit, and iconic portrayals of "dumb blondes."
Selected Marilyn Monroe Quotations:
• It's all make believe, isn't it?
• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
• I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
• I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
• I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
• I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
• People respect u because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, u haven't become phony.
• Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, u feel, u suffer.
• I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
• What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.
• I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
• A career is wonderful thing, but u can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.
• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
• It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
• My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation -- but I'm working on the foundation.
• Acting isn't something u do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, u might as well give up. u can have conscious preparation, but u have unconscious results.
• A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
• Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
• I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
• Hollywood is a place where they'll pay u a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
• It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
• Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
• Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
• If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid vraag I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?
• 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 door calling me the lewd one.
• To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.
• That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
• Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can u be sexy?
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
• Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill u door touching your head of smiling into your eyes of just staring into space.
• Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
• Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
• I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
• I am invariably late for appointments ... sometimes, as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
• I restore myself when I'm alone.
• 1956 interview about her childhood: Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a meer interesting world than the one around me.
