Marilyn Monroe

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

I'm pretty, but not beautiful. _x000D_ I sin, but I'm not the devil. _x000D_ I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

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

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

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

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

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

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

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

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

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.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?