I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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 guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
I want the world to see my body.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
It's all make believe, isn't it?
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
I've always wanted a baby.
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
I read poetry to save time.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.