Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."

"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream."

"Remember now, cheers, no tears..."

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left."

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror."

"I wanna guy I can look up to . . . I just gotta feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me, aside from all that loving stuff."

"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen."

"You can't sleep your way into being a star, though. It takes much, much more. But it helps. A lot of actresses get their first chance that way."

"They 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."

"My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances."

"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."

"A career is born in public -- talent in privacy."

"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."

"Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea."

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

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th"